November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
11h 15m
English

The purpose of this chapter is to introduce you to Oracle’s dbms_scheduler package and to give you practical knowledge regarding this excellent tool. Oracle introduced this program in its Oracle Database 10g release. At that time, its key benefits were its ability to start, stop, and reuse jobs. It represented a huge leap forward in job management. At least, it’s a huge leap over the previous scheduling method, which combined the Linux or Unix cron utility and Oracle’s dbms_job package.
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