Oracle Scheduler

Review Job Run History with DBA_SCHEDULER_JOB_RUN_DETAILS Purpose A stuck job that fails silently overnight rarely announces itself. The next morning's dependent process just doesn't have the data it expected, and by then the only trace of what actually happened lives in the Scheduler's own run log. …

Oracle Scheduler Job Monitoring with DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS Purpose Which Oracle Scheduler jobs are executing at this instant, and how long has each been running? DBA_SCHEDULER_RUNNING_JOBS answers that directly. It lists only the jobs that are active right now — not the full job catalog, not the run history, just …

Oracle DBMS_SCHEDULER: Create and Manage Jobs with PL/SQL Purpose 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. DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB is the procedure that registers that task with the database so it runs on a …