Advantage of Oracle job over Crontab\Control-M?

Is there any advantage of having Job functionality using DBMS_JOBS over Unix crontab\control-M?
Regards,
Bhagat

In what way u need the adv. It depends on what ur application need is.
Is your oracle is installaed on Unix platform, then calling a oracle proc though a small script and putting the same in crontab provides much control over your job. Instead going to DB everytime......
Cheers.......... Bob

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5
6
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