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Lesson 10

The Seven Deadly Sins Wealth without work, pleasure without conscience, knowledge without character, commerce without morality, science without humanity, worship without sacrifice, and politics without principle.’ Gandhi

Scheduler in the Oracle 10g database

Introduction

Oracle Database 10g provides scheduling capabilities through the database Scheduler. It uses the DBMS_SCHEDULER package. The Scheduler offers far more functionality than the DBMS_JOB package. You can create a job class a job class always belongs to the SYS schema. Since the priority of jobs change over a period, now you can also create a window. For example: you can create a window for the month of October that uses the END_OF_YEAR plan and is active every day from 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern standard Time (EST).

 

Hands-On #1-Creating Job using the EM Database Control

Connect as sysdba and grant the DBA system privilege to the ISELF user.

SQL> CONNECT / AS SYSDBA

SQL> GRANT DBA TO ISELF;

How to monitor a Job using the Database Control page:

Log in to the EM Database Control as the ISELF user. From the Database Control home page click on the Administration tab. In the ‘Scheduler’ region, click the ‘Jobs’ link.

You should see:

One schedule, called DAILY_PURGE_SCHEDULE by clicking the Schedulers link,

Two windows, called WEEKNIGHT_WINDOW and WEEKEND_WINDOW by clicking the Windows link, and

Two job classes, called DEFUALT_JOB_CLASS, AUTO_TASKS_JOB_CLASS by clicking the Job Classes link.

How to add a Job using the Database Control page:

Click the Create button on the Scheduler Jobs page,

Fill out the applicable fields,

Back to the Create Job page, enter location of your job script in the Executable Name field, and then click the Schedule tab.

On the Schedule page, make sure that the immediate radio button and the Repeat field is set to Do Not Repeat.

 

Hands-On #2-Creating Job to be executed periodically

Create a schedule named MY_SCHEDULE owned by ISELF that executes every five seconds.

SQL> CONNECT iself/schooling

SQL> BEGIN

DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_schedule (

SCHEDULE_NAME => ‘MY_SCHEDULE’,

START_DATE => SYSTIMESTAMP,

REPEAT_INTERVAL => ‘FREQ=SECONDLY;INERVAL=5’,

COMMENTS => ‘This is my first created schedule.’);

END;

/

Now, you should be able to see it in your Database Control page.

 

Hands-ON #3-Creating Job by using executable program

Create a job that calls your created online backup every night at 10 p.m. You should have been granted CREATE JOB to be able to create a job. Jobs are created as disabled by default. You must enable them explicitly.

SQL> BEGIN

DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_job (

JOB_NAME => ‘ISELF.ONLINE_BACKUP’,

JOB_TYPE => ‘EXECUTABLE’,

JOB_ACTION => ‘/home/my_Nightly_online_backup.sh’,

START_DATE => TRUNC(SYSDATE+1)+22/24,

REPEAT_INTERVAL => ‘TRUNC(SYSDATE+1)+22/24’,

COMMENTS => ‘My nightly online backup’);

END;

/

Notice that the JOB_TYPE can be PLSQL_BLOCK, STORED_PROCEDURE, and EXECUTABLE. The REPEAT_INTERVAL can be HOURLY, DAILY, MINUTELY, YEARLY or BYMONTH, BYWEEKNO, BYYEARDAY, BYMONTHDAY, BYDAY, BYHOUR, BYMINUTE, BYSECOUND. For example, FREQ=BYWEEKNO=4,7,52 or BYDAY=MON, etc.

SQL> EXEC DBMS_SCHEDULER.enable(‘ISELF.ONLINE_BACKUP’);

 

Hands-On #4-Creating Job by using program

Assuming that you have a procedure that collects information daily called DAILY_DATA_GATHERING. You can create a problem to call this procedure and create a job to run it daily.

SQL> BEGIN

DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_program (

PROGRAM_NAME => ‘DAILY_GATHERING’,

PROGRAM_ACTION => ‘ISLEF.DAILY_DATA_GATHERING’,

PROGRAM_TYPE => ‘STORED_PROCEDURE’,

ENABLED => TRUE);

END;

SQL> BEGIN

DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_job (

JOB_NAME => ‘ISELF.DAILY_GATHERING_JOB’,

PROGRAM_NAME => ‘ISLEF.DAILY_GATHERING’,

START_DATE => TRUNC(SYSDATE+1)+22/24,

REPEAT_INTERVAL => ‘TRUNC(SYSDATE+1)+22/24’,

COMMENTS => ‘Daily Data Gathering Job.’);

END;

/

You could also use your created schedule on hands-on #2:

SQL> BEGIN

DBMS_SCHEDULER.create_job (

JOB_NAME => ‘ISELF.DAILY_GATHERING_JOB’,

PROGRAM_NAME => ‘ISLEF.DAILY_GATHERING’,

SCHEDULE_NAME => ‘MY_SCHEDULE’);

END;

/

 

 

 

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Questions:

Questions on

Scheduler in the Oracle 10g database

Q: What is the DBMS_SCHEDULER package?

Q: How do you monitor a Job using the Database Control page?

Q: How do you add a Job using the Database Control page?

Q: How to create a schedule named MY_SCHEDULE owned by ISELF that executes every five seconds.

Q: How to schedule a job that calls your created online-backup every night at 10 p.m.?

Q: Assuming that you have a procedure that collects information daily called DAILY_DATA_GATHERING. Now, you should create a problem to call this procedure and create a job to run it daily. How you do that?