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Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs, Second Edition
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Linux and Solaris Recipes for Oracle DBAs, Second Edition

by Darl Kuhn, Charles Kim, Bernard Lopuz
November 2015
Intermediate to advanced
500 pages
11h 59m
English
Apress
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CHAPTER 10

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Automating Jobs with cron

In almost every type of Linux/Solaris environment—from development to production—DBAs rely heavily on automating tasks such as database backups, monitoring, and maintenance jobs. Automating routine tasks allows DBAs to be much more effective and productive. Automated environments inherently run more smoothly and efficiently than manually administered systems.

This chapter focuses on showing you how to leverage the cron job scheduler. The cron scheduling tool, which is universally available on Linux/Solaris systems, is accessible and easy to use. For these reasons, this utility is frequently chosen by DBAs to ...

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