How to run job every saturday 8p.m.

Question

I have run the job weekly i.e. every saturday 8pm
could you pls advice me what I shoudl do in scheduler

Answer 1

Hi Nav,
Schedule it as a database job as below
BEGIN
  --Create a schedule
  dbms_scheduler.create_schedule (schedule_name => 'RUN_EVERY_FRIDAY_800PM',  start_date=> trunc(sysdate)+18/24,  repeat_interval=> 'FREQ=DAILY; BYDAY=FRI; BYHOUR=20;', comments=>'Runtime: Run at 8pm every Friday'); 
  --Create a Program
  dbms_scheduler.create_program  (program_name=> 'My_Program',  program_type=> 'STORED_PROCEDURE',  program_action=> 'pkg_my.procedure1',  enabled=>true,  comments=>'Call Procedure1 procedure in pkg_my package' ); 
  --Use Schedular and program and create a job
  dbms_scheduler.create_job  (job_name => 'My_Job', program_name=> 'My_Program', schedule_name=>'RUN_EVERY_FRIDAY_800PM', enabled=>true,  auto_drop=>false,  comments=>'Run My_Program every friday 8pm');
END; In above I have use 3 steps, Advantage of this is
01. when you want to use same things for another job you can easily use it. For a example if you wnat to run anther program in "Every Friday 8pm" then you can use same scheduler for that job as well.
02. If you use same schedule for multiple jobs and if you change that schedule, then all jobs whish were use that schedule will affect. So you can easily group jobs together.
But if you wnat to run that progarm only ones then you can use below code to do that
DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_job (
    job_name        => 'My_Job',
    job_type        => 'PLSQL_BLOCK',
    job_action      => 'BEGIN pkg_my.procedure1; END;',
    start_date      =>  trunc(sysdate)+18/24,
    repeat_interval => 'FREQ=DAILY; BYDAY=FRI; BYHOUR=20;',
    end_date        => NULL,
    enabled         => TRUE,
    comments        => 'Run My_Program every friday 8pm');Thanks