Creating a simple batch job to run every month and perform a deletion

Question

dear all;
This is just for learning purposes
I have created a simple table below
create table t1
  vid varchar2(30),
  quantity number(6,2),
  primary key (vid)
insert into t1
    (vid, quantity)
values
    ('G1', 2);
insert into t1
    (vid, quantity)
values
    ('G2', 3);
insert into t1
    (vid, quantity)
values
    ('G3', 0);Now, I would like to create a simple batch job, that runs every month which is used to delete all vid that has a quantity of 0...How do i go about doing that. I have searched the web but can't seems to find any useful info so far..
Edited by: user13328581 on Sep 8, 2010 8:32 AM

Answer 1

you are missing a semi-colon in your package procedure call inside your begin ... end.
begin
  dbms_scheduler.create_job
    job_name => 'jobdeletezeroquantity'
    , program_name => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
    , job_action => 'BEGIN mfg.testpkg.deletezeroquantity END;'             <-- missing semi-colon on mfg.testpkg.deletezeroquantity
    , start_date => systimestamp
    , repeat_interval => 'freq=monthly; byday = 1'
    , end_date => null
    , enabled => True
    , comments => 'used to run a delete procedure every month'
end;should be:
begin
  dbms_scheduler.create_job
    job_name => 'jobdeletezeroquantity'
    , program_name => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
    , job_action => 'BEGIN mfg.testpkg.deletezeroquantity; END;'
    , start_date => systimestamp
    , repeat_interval => 'freq=monthly; byday = 1'
    , end_date => null
    , enabled => TRUE
    , comments => 'used to run a delete procedure every month'
end;