RE: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Stephane Faroult
How about dbms_job.submit(:jobno, 'statspack.snap', sysdate+n/1440, 'sysdate 15/1440'); where n= a number of minutes to the nearest 15 minutes. So if it's 14:25 then it would be sysdate+5/1440. since you only need to do this one time, just make sure that sysdate + n = 0, 15, 30 or 45 after the

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Tim Gorman
Personally, I tend to just submit four jobs: one at the top of hour, one at 15 past, one at 30 past, and the fourth at 45 past. To alter the frequency, just break or remove one or more of the jobs. Falls into the category of not elegant, but it works... - Original Message - To:

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes I simplified it by using cron instead ... g Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Rajendra dot Jamadagni at ESPN dot com Any opinion expressed here is personal and doesn't reflect

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Arup Nanda
That's exactly what I do. Phew! I thought I was the only one ;) - Original Message - To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 8:03 AM Personally, I tend to just submit four jobs: one at the top of hour, one at 15 past, one at 30

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Cron? How 1980's :-)) RF Robert G. FreemanTechnical Management ConsultantTUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!)Author of several books you can find on Amazon.com! -Original

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jamadagni, Rajendra
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Robert, I have solid reasons not to trust dbms_job ... it didn't work reliably in 901x. Call me retro ... but "cron" rocks ... 8:) Raj __ Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc. Ra

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread dgoulet
; / Seems to me that the time specs could be simplified a bit. Anyone care to give it a go? :) Jared !DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN HTMLHEAD META HTTP-EQUIV=Content-Type CONTENT=text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 TITLERE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes/TITLE

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Cron? How RELIABLE !! -Original Message-From: Freeman Robert - IL [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 10:10 AMTo: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-LSubject: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes LOL. Ok, I confess, my name's Robert and I'm a CRON user Rf Robert G. FreemanTechnical Management ConsultantTUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com904.708.5076 Cell (it's everywhere that I am!)Author of several books you can find

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
One thing I've learned Arup, there are 15,000 ways of doing the same thing, and a good many of those are as good as the other. Cron, dbms_job, at, whatever works for you!! Rf Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (it's

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Title: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes LOL. You are right about the job_scheduler in early 9i. Had all sorts of problems when I first started moving stuff to 9.0.1 and 9.0.2 and Oracle was no help figuring out what the problem was. I use cron all the time, but I love

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Vladimir Begun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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 -- INTERVAL is a date function, evaluated immediately before the job starts -- executing... runs longer than

Re[2]: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread dgoulet
Vladimir, I beg to disagree. The reason is that we used a number of jobs where the interval was defined as sysdate+1 and the job routinely ran for ~30 minutes every day. The result was that the job migrated over the course of a week by 3.5 hours so that instead of running at 6AM as

RE: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
Yea... I realized that after I sent the email, so I submitted my second suggestion... Thanks though for your thoughts!! Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com 904.708.5076 Cell (It's everywhere that I am!) Author of several books you can find on

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/2003 06:54 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes That's exactly what I do. Phew! I thought I was the only one

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes How about this... this will start the job at the top of the following hour and then schedule it every 15 minutes... dbms_job.submit(:jobno, 'statspack.snap;',to_date(to_char(sysdate+60/1440,'mm/dd/ hh24'), 'mm/dd/ hh24') ,'to_date(to_char

RE: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
] cc: Subject:RE: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Yea... I realized that after I sent the email, so I submitted my second suggestion... Thanks though for your thoughts!! Robert G. Freeman Technical Management Consultant TUSC - The Oracle Experts www.tusc.com

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
... Jared [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/2003 08:34 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes One potential problem

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
[EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes How about this... this will start the job at the top of the following hour and then schedule it every 15 minutes... dbms_job.submit(:jobno, 'statspack.snap;',to_date(to_char(sysdate+60/1440,'mm/dd

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Vladimir Begun
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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. No, as written, my jobs start on every quarter hour, regardless of runtime. e.g. 09:00,

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 6:24 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread JApplewhite
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RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jesse, Rich
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Thanks Robert, I like this. Simplified and still easy to read. Jared Robert

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Gene Sais
If a job takes longer than the next scheduled time to execute then I see a problem. Suppose a job runs every 15 mins but runtime is 30 mins, the number ofjobs will increase andcompete for the same resources. I always use cron (80's kinda of control), and the 1st thing I do is check if the

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Freeman Robert - IL
: Wednesday, January 22, 2003 12:35 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Thanks Robert, I like this. Simplified and still easy to read. Jared Robert Freeman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/21

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Ron Rogers
1980's??? Yes, but it works, ain't broke, reliable, KISS, and is easy to implement. I use cron from my Linux box to connect to the production Oracle database (OpenVMS) and do a RMAN backup with the catalog on a second Oracle database (OpenVMS) server. Beats the heck out of trying to get the

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Vladimir Begun
Stephane Faroult wrote: Vladimir (whose formula I am still trying to understand :-))... TRUNC(SYSDATE) + (CEIL(TO_CHAR(SYSDATE, 'S') / 60 / :interval) / (24 * 60 / :interval)); P.S.: could you please answer my question ('100% CPU utilization, urgent') thread? -- Vladimir Begun The

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 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

Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-22 Thread Jared . Still
by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 01/22/2003 11:39 AM Please respond to ORACLE-L To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: Subject:Re:RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes Actually, Interval is evaluated at the beginning of the job

dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-21 Thread Jared . Still
Feeling particularly anal the other day, I used the following specification to run statspack at the top of the hour, 15, 30 and 45 minutes after the hour. variable jobno number; variable instno number; begin select instance_number into :instno from v$instance; dbms_job.submit(

Re: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-21 Thread Vladimir Begun
Jared in general it's much more better to use bind variables, here I do not use them, shame on me! :) Hope the code below is ok for you at least it does not look so complicated. VARIABLE jobno NUMBER; VARIABLE plsql VARCHAR2(1000); EXEC :plsql := 'BEGIN statspack.snap; END;'; BEGIN

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Freeman
How about dbms_job.submit(:jobno, 'statspack.snap', sysdate+n/1440, 'sysdate 15/1440'); where n= a number of minutes to the nearest 15 minutes. So if it's 14:25 then it would be sysdate+5/1440. since you only need to do this one time, just make sure that sysdate + n = 0, 15, 30 or 45 after the

RE: dbms_job - running jobs every 15 minutes

2003-01-21 Thread Robert Freeman
How about this... this will start the job at the top of the following hour and then schedule it every 15 minutes... dbms_job.submit(:jobno, 'statspack.snap;',to_date(to_char(sysdate+60/1440,'mm/dd/ hh24'), 'mm/dd/ hh24') ,'to_date(to_char(sysdate+60/1440,''mm/dd/ hh24''), ''mm/dd/