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Oracle Job Scheduling

Chapter 1 - Overview of Oracle Job Scheduling

Conclusion

This chapter has outlined the various scheduling mechanisms available, both external and internal to the database including:

The use of the CRON scheduler in UNIX and Linux environments.
The use of several Windows schedulers including AT, SCHTASKS and the Scheduled Tasks Wizard.
An overview of the functionality of the Oracle scheduler prior to Oracle 10g.
An overview of the functionality of the Oracle 10g scheduler.
A feature comparison between the new and the old Oracle schedulers.
An overview of the process of migrating jobs from the old to the new scheduler.

The next chapter will reveal the syntax for creating scheduled jobs using both the old and the new Oracle scheduler.

The above text is an excerpt from:

Oracle Job Scheduling
Creating Robust Task Management with dbms_job and Oracle10g dbms_scheduler

ISBN 0-9744486-6-4

by Dr. Timothy S. Hall

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