Oracle Job Scheduling

Creating robust task management with dbms_job and Oracle 10g dbms_schedulerThis unique book focuses on the use of internal utilities to schedule complex Oracle database tasks. The book compares external job scheduling with UNIX cron and Windows AT command, and shows the differences between the dbms_job and dbms_scheduler utilities. This indispensable reference shows working examples of how to schedule complex time-based jobs, creating streams of multiple jobs, scheduling job streams with intermediate error checking, scheduling of event-based jobs, and much, much more.See the differences between cron, AT, dbms_job and dbms_scheduler See step-by-step instructions for implementing dbms_job and dbms_scheduler Learn how to create complex time-based job invocation. See real-world techniques for job coordination with dbms_job and dbms_scheduler Get working examples from the Oracle 10g dbms_scheduler utility Protect your Oracle job-stream integrity with error-checking code Create e-mails alerts for aborted job steps Get working scripts to display upcoming job statusAbout the Author Dr. Tim Hall is an Oracle Certified Professional DBA (7.3, 8, 8i, 9i, 10g) and has been involved in DBA, design and development work with Oracle databases since graduating from university in 1994 with a PhD in Molecular Genetics. Tim Hall has gained a wide knowledge of the Oracle software stack and has worked as a consultant for several multi-national companies on projects ranging from real-time control systems to OLTP web applications. Since 2000 he has published over 200 articles on his website www.oracle-base.com covering a wide range of Oracle features. Tim has been a Karate black belt since 1993 and is a practitioner and qualified teacher of Hatha and Ashtanga yoga. In addition he enjoys running, having completed 2002 London Marathon.