Does this work for you:

select trunc(sysdate + 1/24,'hh') + 50/(60 * 24)    from dual;

Your next will be: 'trunc(sysdate + 1/24,'hh') + 50/(60 * 24)'

Regards,

Waleed

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Stephane:
Precisely what I was after!
Thanks so much for your help.  I really appreciate it.

Barb

--- Stephane Faroult <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Barbara Baker wrote:
> > 
> >  Sun  / Solaris 2.6 ; Oracle RDBMS v8.0.5.2.1
> > 
> > List:
> > I want to change the perfstat statspack.snap
> procedure
> >   FROM running every hour on-the-hour
> >   TO   running at 10 minutes till the hour.
> > (On-the-hour is conflicting with another
> procedure.)
> > I tried to Read The Frustrating Manual, but I can
> only
> > find examples for on-the-hour intervals.
> > 
> > I thought I had it nailed when I spoon-fed the job
> > with the next_date value at 10 till, and then the
> > interval for 'SYSDATE+1/24'.  When I looked at it
> > after the next run, it was fine, but it has
> "creeped".
> >  Now it's running whenever it feels like it.
> > 
> > I've lost track of all the date intervals I tried,
> but
> > here's what I tried last.
> > 
> > variable jobno number;
> > begin
> >   select 1 into :jobno from dual;
> >   end;
> > /
> > begin
> >   dbms_job.change(:jobno,
> >                   'statspack.snap;',
> >                    to_date('09-JAN-2003 9:50') ,
> >                   'SYSDATE+1/24'
> >                    );
> >   commit;
> > end;
> > /
> > 
> > prompt  Job number for automated statistics
> collection
> > for this instance
> > prompt
> > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > prompt  Note that this job number is needed when
> > modifying or removing
> > prompt  the job:
> > print jobno
> > 
> > Here's what it currently looks like:
> > 
> > What:      statspack.snap;
> > Job:       1
> > Priv User: PERFSTAT
> > Last:      01/10/2003 14:16:13
> > Running:   NO
> > Next:      01/10/2003 15:16:13
> > Interval:  SYSDATE+1/24
> > Total Time:
> 53985.9999999999999999999999999999999999
> > Broken:
> > 
> > Any idea how I can get to run consistently at 10
> till
> > each hour?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance for any help.
> > Barb
> > 
> 
> Barbara,
> 
>   Jobs creep because Oracle polls for jobs every
> minute by default -
> more or less. Then it computes 'next run' time, runs
> the job and, if it
> works, updates next_date. The problem is that you
> job starts say only 20
> seconds late (based on the 'theoretical' time) this
> lag accumulates if
> you compute the next time as SYSDATE + 1/24. Assume
> 20 s each time on
> average, it's 8 minutes every day - quickly becomes
> quite noticeable.
> The only way to keep things under check is to use
> TRUNC() to the
> suitable unit. You should define INTERVAL as
>     TRUNC(SYSDATE, 'HH24') + 1/24 + 10/1440 
>      ^ round time (current)
>                               ^ plus one hour
>                                      ^ plus ten
> minutes
> 
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Stephane Faroult
> Oriole Software
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