Oracle does not guarantee that the job will start at the time specified;
it seems
that it usually starts about 1 minute later, at least that's what I see.
This would account for the creep, as when the interval is evaluated, it is
later
than you might expect.
Jared
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Actually, Interval is evaluated at the beginning of the job according to
the docs.
I've not seen anyone mention the real cause behind DBMS_Job "creep". That
is the setting of Job_Queue_Interval which, by default, is 60 seconds. So
your jobs will run 1 minute later each time unless you set Interval to
evaluate to an absolute. If someone's set Job_Queue_Interval longer, the
"creep" will be longer as well.
Jack C. Applewhite
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One potential problem with DBMS_JOBS as is being discussed here is that
Oracle
computes the next_date at the end of the job. They do that so that if a
job
runs longer than it's schedule interval the two invocations will not run
into
each other. Now as discussed, if the job is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM
and
runbs for 5 minutes it's next_date for run #2 will be 9:20, not 9:15, and
it
will creep 5 minutes every time.
Dick Goulet
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