Yup....

The original oracle parameters were called

snapshot_interval
snapshot_processes

or something like that.

In v9, you get a CJQ (Job Queue Coordinator -
obviously some dyslexic at Oracle), and Jnnn's

hth
connor

 --- "Johnston, Tim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >
It's the oracle job queue processes...  The
> following is an educated
> guess...  If I'm wrong I'm sure someone will correct
> me...
>  
> :-)
>  
> I think SNP originally stood for snapshot job... 
> When Oracle introduced
> snapshots, they needed a mechanism to schedule and
> run snapshot refreshes...
> Hence the SNP background processes...  Then someone
> at Oracle decided they
> could externalize this mechanism and DBMS_JOB was
> born...
>  
> Can anyone confirm (or crush) the theory?
> Tim
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2002 5:29 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> 
> What does the background job queue acronym SNP stand
> for ? 
> 
>  

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