JOB Scheduling in oracle

Question

I would like to schedule a Pl/SQL procedure to run once in an hour. Could you please let me if the below begin.. end block can be put inside a separate job or
else to run manually in the SQL prompt/SQL window
BEGIN
DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB
job_name => 'NAME OF THE JOB'
,start_date => systimestamp
,repeat_interval => 'freq=hourly'
,end_date => NULL
,job_class => 'DEFAULT_JOB_CLASS'
,job_type => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
,job_action => 'begin procedure_name;end;'
,comments => NULL
END;
BEGIN
DBMS_SCHEDULER.ENABLE('NAME OF THE JOB');
END;

Answer 1

Hi,
You can use dbms_job.submit for that, and set the interval.
(*and don't forget to commit the submitted job, else nothing will happen*)
Example:
declare
  jobno number;
begin
  dbms_job.submit( job => jobno
                 , what => 'begin myupdate; end;'
                 , next_date => sysdate --when to run for the first time
                 , interval => 'trunc(sysdate)+1+16/24' --keep in mind: interval is a string and not a date
end;
commit;Also:
Check parameter job_queue_processes is greater than 0.
MHO%xe> sho parameter job_queue_processes
NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
job_queue_processes                  integer     4Some additional links that should get you going:
Oracle 9i docs: http://www.oracle.com/pls/db92/homepage
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96612/d_job.htm#ARPLS019
http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/search?p_string=dbms_job.submit