Dbms_job question..

Hi all..
Please help with this dbms_job question.
i have a dbms_jobs(some procedure) which i set to run ""every 5 minutes"".
Question:
If my proc takes more than 5 minutes to complete. Does the dbms_job initiates another run of that procedures?
or Does it stops untill the present one to complete ? and initiates another run after completing the existing one
Please let me know.
Thank in advance for the help..

This is more suited to the PL/SQL, however...
As stated here
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11882_01/appdev.112/e25788/d_job.htm#i1000712
The next date is defined by the interval. The way I used to think of it was if I had a job that ran at 4pm, and it took 5 minutes to run, if I added 1 day with the interval it would run at 16:05 tomorrow, then progressively creep further.
Best you use an interval such as trunc(sysdate)+1+16/24, if my late night maths/memory are correct.
Even better, use DBMS_SCHEDULER

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Dbms_job: question about broken jobs

Hi.
I have defined the following job:
VARIABLE jobno NUMBER
BEGIN
DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT (:jobno,'test_proc;',SYSDATE,'SYSDATE + 5/86400');
COMMIT;
END;
When the procedure is invalid the job queue tries to start it 16 times and marks the job as broken.
Is there an option that dbms_job does an automatic recompile of the procedure after the job has the broken status?
Thanks
Markus

you could do a two-step job to compile the proc, then execute it.
VARIABLE jobno NUMBER
BEGIN
DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT (:jobno,'BEGIN
ALTER PROCEDURE test_proc COMPILE;
test_proc;
END',SYSDATE,'SYSDATE + 5/86400');
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Another scheduling question (using DBMS_JOBS)

Let's say I have a procedure do_task(text IN VARCHAR2, retry_count IN PLS_INTEGER)
I want to schedule a job to run this procedure every N minutes, each time decreasing retry_count by one. When the procedure succeeds in its task or is run with retry_count=0, the job should be killed.
So initially I might do:
DECLARE
string VARCHAR2;
job_no NUMBER;
BEGIN
string:= 'do_task(' || text || ', 8);'
DBMS_JOBS.submit(job_no,string,SYSDATE,'SYSDATE+5/(24*60)');
COMMIT;
END;
Does all this seem normal? The other way is to have a database table recording this stuff but I don't want tables if not required. And how can a job know its own id to adjust itself?

Actually I think I can instead use DBA_JOBS.FAILURES to see the number of retries. I think this is incremented each time the job becomes broken? The thing I can't find is how the scheduler decides whether a job has become broken? If my job's execution fails can I prevent the job being broken (so it doesn't stop being repeated), and manually update the FAILURES field?

Question about DBMS_JOB

Hi , I have this job that I would like to modify so that it runs only from sunday to thursday and starts at 8:00 till 14:30.
DECLARE
X NUMBER;
BEGIN
SYS.DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT
    ( job       => X
     ,what      => 'update_port_prices;'
     ,next_date => sysdate
     ,interval => ' SYSDATE + 0.010416666666666666666666666666667 /* every quarter an hour */ '
     ,no_parse => TRUE
SYS.DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Job Number is: ' || to_char(x));
END;
commit;

Try this
create or replace function next_execution return date as
v_dt date;
begin
v_dt:= case when to_char(sysdate,'HH24MI') between 0800 and 1415 then
trunc(sysdate,'MI')+15/1440
when to_char(sysdate,'DY') in ('SUN','MON','TUE','WED') then
trunc(sysdate)+1+8/24
else next_day(trunc(sysdate),'SUN')+8/24 end;
return v_dt;
end;
--Checking function output
PRAZY@11gR1> select to_char(sysdate,'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;
TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'MM
03/16/2010 16:46:00
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
PRAZY@11gR1> select to_char(next_execution,'MM/DD/YYYY HH24:MI:SS') from dual;
TO_CHAR(NEXT_EXECUT
03/17/2010 08:00:00
Elapsed: 00:00:00.00
--job scheduling
declare
v_num number;
begin
dbms_job.submit(v_num,'update_port_prices;',sysdate,'next_execution()');
dbms_output.put_line('Job Number :'||v_num);
end;Regards,
Prazy
Edited by: Prazy on Mar 16, 2010 4:42 PM
Removed THU as it has to run only from sunday to thursday & added sysdate in function test & fixed some typo's ;)

Question on schedule jobs

Hi,
i created two varients of the job as shown belo.
1)
DECLARE
X NUMBER;
BEGIN
SYS.DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT
    ( job       => X - job name as 'X'
     ,what      => 'DEL_EMPLOYEE_TABLE;' - ITS A STORED PROCEDURE
     ,next_date => to_date('19/05/2009 01:00:00','dd/mm/yyyy hh24:mi:ss')
     ,interval => 'trunc(sysdate) + 1/24 + 1'
     ,no_parse => TRUE
SYS.DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Job Number is: ' || to_char(x));
END;
2)
begin
dbms_scheduler.create_job (
job_name => 'DEL_EMPLOYEE_TABLE',
job_type => 'STORED_PROCEDURE',
job_action => 'DEL_EMPLOYEE_TABLE',
number_of_arguments => 0,
start_date => SYSTIMESTAMP,
repeat_interval => 'FREQ=DAILY;BYHOUR=0;BYMINUTE=0;BYSECOND=0',
end_date => NULL,
enabled => TRUE,
comments => 'Delete EMPOYEE old records');
end;
i have the following questions
1) what is the difference between #1 and #2
2) When i queried the DB with following query i could see only
select owner, job_name, state from dba_scheduler_jobs
i could see only
'DEL_EMPLOYEE_TABLE' - job but do not see the #1 job as - X

[email protected] wrote:
1) what is the difference between #1 and #2They use two different schedulers, the old one (DBMS_JOB) and the new one (DBMS_SCHEDULER)
2) When i queried the DB with following query i could see only
select owner, job_name, state from dba_scheduler_jobs
i could see only
'DEL_EMPLOYEE_TABLE' - job but do not see the #1 job as - XYou can find it using:
select * from user_jobsMax
http://oracleitalia.wordpress.com
Edited by: Massimo Ruocchio on Mar 9, 2010 9:37 PM
typos

DBMS_JOB

I'm sure you have all had enough questions from me in the past few days! but you all are so helpful i can't stop my self from attempting to get as much help as i can :D its hard to read through documentation 50 pages long when you all usually have a paragraph answer that gives me the important stuff that i am missing linking together...
I've figured out how to send an e-mail using a trigger and a procedure when an employee is inserted into the employee table. (this is for school- but showing that you can e-mail someone to notify them that an event has occured within the database).
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I don't understand the documentation on dbms_job very well...
Is it possible to make dbms_job occur when commit has taken place?
Would this work for my situation? i've included some code.
Any ideas on where i'd get started with it?
Any input would be wonderful- thanks again everyone.
create or replace
PROCEDURE proc (p_sender IN VARCHAR2,
p_recipient IN VARCHAR2,
p_message IN VARCHAR2, p_subject IN VARCHAR2)
as
l_mailhost VARCHAR2(255) := 'my smtp';
l_mail_conn utl_smtp.connection;
nline VARCHAR2(2):= UTL_TCP.CRLF;
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BEGIN
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Edited by: user12264910 on Nov 30, 2009 12:19 PM

It is giving me an error- i can't figure out these last two variables.... i tried the one you suggested and got error as well.
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER emailInsertTrigger
BEFORE INSERT ON EMPLOYEE
FOR EACH ROW
DECLARE
msg varchar2(2000);
l_jobno integer;
BEGIN
msg := chr(13) || chr(10) || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'New Employee Information: ' || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'SSN: ' || to_char(:new.ssn) || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Name: ' || :new.fname || ' ' || :new.minit || ' ' || :new.lname || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Birth Date: ' || to_char(:new.bdate, 'Month DD, YYYY') || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Address ' || :new.address || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Sex: ' || :new.sex || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Salary: ' || to_char(:new.salary,'$9999,999.00') || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Supervisor SSN: ' || to_char(:new.super_ssn) || chr(13) || chr(10) || 'Department Number: ' || to_char(:new.dno);
dbms_output.put_line('e-mail sent');
dbms_job.submit(l_jobno, 'execute proc(''[email protected]'', ''[email protected]'', ' || msg || ' , ''TESTINGNEW'');', SYSDATE, SYSDATE);
dbms_output.put_line( 'Job ' || l_jobno || ' submitted.');
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SQL> @newtrig.sql
Trigger created.
SQL> insert into EMPLOYEE values ('test1f','test1l1','A','111135111', to_date('2001/01/01','yyyy/mm/dd'), '1 test rd', 'M', 11111, '123411111' , 1)
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 166:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "" when expecting one of the following:
( - + case mod new not null others <an identifier>
<a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> avg
count current exists max min prior sql stddev sum variance
execute forall merge time timestamp interval date
<a string literal with character set specification>
<a number> <a single-quoted SQL string> pipe
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_JOB", line 79
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_JOB", line 136
ORA-06512: at "MDIBLA1.EMAILINSERTTRIGGER", line 7
ORA-04088: error during execution of trigger 'MDIBLA1.EMAILINSERTTRIGGER'
any suggestion?

DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT guidance.

DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT (
job OUT BINARY_INTEGER,
what IN VARCHAR2,
next_date IN DATE DEFAULT sysdate,
interval IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'null',
no_parse IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE,
instance IN BINARY_INTEGER DEFAULT any_instance,
force IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE);
Guys,
I've come across a script in which the DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT is invoked with just the 'job' and the 'what' inputs. In such case, when would the job kick off?
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[Question 1]
If I execute dbms_job like following, I've error :
[Execute]
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'my_proc',
sysdate,
'sysdate + 1/86400');
[Error]
declare
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-06550: line 1, column 149:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "END" when expecting one of the following:
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null

I've found syntax error in your code.
You forgot to put ';' after the call(my_proc) to the procedure. It should look like as mentioned
below.
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sysdate,
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null

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I have submitted two jobs by using dbms_job.submit(). I want to know whether they will get executed in parallel or in queue. Please see below example
EX: My task is to run the same procedure with different parametrs so i tried the following.
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968892 wrote:
This is not good..suppose procedure contains same table insert ... it will take time to execute... this not good practice.What?
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The business behind this 1 second job is an external process (a box passing by a bar code reader generates an event that is inserted in an event table TMSEVENTS). So this process only inserts rows into a table? When and how does it commit that insert? Does it do any other database activity/transactions?
The event generated by the external process will be processed by a PL/SQL procedure in my database and may take longer than one second.Why does this PL/SQL procedure only need to process a single row at a time? Why cannot it pick up a number of rows to process and process these in a fast and tight processing loop?
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And if I'm not mistaken, AQ is also available on XE. Which means this type of processing architecture you can use on XE and scale all the way up to the Enterprise and RAC editions of Oracle.

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Hello Everyone,
I was searching in Google for submitting a job. What I found is
BEGIN
DECLARE
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commit;
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Would this job work ?
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11        Utl_File.Put_Line
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13     END LOOP;
14
15     Utl_File.FCLOSE (Fileid);
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17 /
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2     v_JobNum NUMBER;
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5     commit;
6     dbms_output.put_line(v_jobnum);
7 END;
8 /
42
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL> exec dbms_job.run(42);
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.Yuo can check next run date in user_jobs
SQL> alter session set nls_date_format = 'dd-mm-yyyy hh24:mi:ss';
Session altered.
SQL> select next_date
2   from user_jobs
3   where job = 42;
NEXT_DATE
14-03-2012 09:00:00

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We have created three jobs via dbms_job to run on a daily basis. Initially, everything is fine but after periods of heavy loading we see the number of jobs increasing uncontollably. The same job appears to be resubmitted to the job queue and from a start point of three jobs we get up to 50,000 jobs in the user_job view.
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Not sure what is your exact question. But, when you execute this script with proper param value the job will be kicked off. And, interval is the param where you specify the gap between two consecutive execution.
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Schedule dbms_job are not runing

Hi all,
we have database link between two database ysccapps on IBM-AIX 5.2 and bmms IBM-AIX 4.3 before one month bmms database was on windows platform but i migrate from window to ibm aix 4.3 my probelm is some dbms_jobs are running and some are not runing.these job invoking procedure.those not rununig jobs we can run it manually but we need to run these jobs daily basis in schedule time. there is database link between two database.i saw on the net about this job_queue_interval and job_queue_processes, in both the database job_queue_proceses are 10 but job_queue_interval is obselete.
my question how to run these job daily, can any one suggest me. i daily see through toad also.quick response will higly appreciated.thank a lot in advance
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