https://www.oraclescripts.com/series/oracle-administration-jobs/Recent content in Oracle Administration Jobs on Oracle ScriptsHugo -- gohugo.ioenOracleScripts.comTue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.oraclescripts.com/post/oracle-scheduler-job-monitoring-dba-scheduler-running-jobs/Tue, 09 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.oraclescripts.com/post/oracle-scheduler-job-monitoring-dba-scheduler-running-jobs/ <h2 id="oracle-scheduler-job-monitoring-with-dba_scheduler_running_jobs">Oracle Scheduler Job Monitoring with DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS</h2> <h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2> <p>Which Oracle Scheduler jobs are executing at this instant, and how long has each been running? <code>DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS</code> answers that directly. It lists only the jobs that are active right now — not the full job catalog, not the run history, just the live set. Joining it to <code>DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS</code> adds the job's owner, program, and schedule, so a single query turns &quot;is anything stuck?&quot; into a concrete list of names, session IDs, and elapsed times.</p>https://www.oraclescripts.com/post/oracle-dbms-scheduler-create-manage-jobs/Mon, 08 Jun 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://www.oraclescripts.com/post/oracle-dbms-scheduler-create-manage-jobs/ <h2 id="oracle-dbms_scheduler-create-and-manage-jobs-with-plsql">Oracle DBMS_SCHEDULER: Create and Manage Jobs with PL/SQL</h2> <h2 id="purpose">Purpose</h2> <p>Automating a recurring task — a nightly statistics gather, a log purge, an end-of-month rollup — is a standard part of running an Oracle database. <code>DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB</code> is the procedure that registers that task with the database so it runs on a calendar schedule without an external cron entry. The job, its action, and its schedule all live inside the database, which means they are backed up, replicated to a standby, and visible in the data dictionary.</p>