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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs
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Oracle PL/SQL for DBAs

by Arup Nanda, Steven Feuerstein
October 2005
Intermediate to advanced
454 pages
14h 44m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Getting Information About Windows

You can obtain information about windows in the database from the view DBA_SCHEDULER_WINDOWS. Here are the important columns of the view.

Column name

Description

WINDOW_NAME

Name of the window.

RESOURCE_PLAN

Name of the Resource Manager plan associated with the window.

SCHEDULE_OWNER

If the window has a named schedule, this is the name of the owner of the schedule.

SCHEDULE_NAME

Name of the schedule, if any.

START_DATE

Timestamp when the window will open. This is effective only when the window’s calendar properties are provided inline, not via a schedule. Shows the date in the TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE datatype.

REPEAT_INTERVAL

If the window has an inline schedule (calendar string, as opposed to a named schedule), this is the calendar string.

END_DATE

When a window has an inline schedule (calendar string, as opposed to a named schedule), this specifies the timestamp when the window will close permanently. Similar to start_date, this column shows the date in the TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE datatype.

DURATION

How long the window is open. Shown in the DURATION datatype .

WINDOW_PRIORITY

When two windows overlap, the one with the higher priority will be opened, and the other one will be closed. The priorities are shown as HIGH and LOW.

NEXT_START_DATE

Next timestamp the window is scheduled to open. Shows the date in the datatype TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE.

LAST_START_DATE

Timestamp of the last time the window was opened. ...

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