Vladimir, I beg to disagree. The reason is that we used a number of jobs where the interval was defined as "sysdate+1" and the job routinely ran for ~30 minutes every day. The result was that the job migrated over the course of a week by 3.5 hours so that instead of running at 6AM as scheduled on Monday it was running at 9:30 AM on the next Monday. I filed an iTar on the subject which resulted in OTS providing what I stated. Interval is evaluated at the end of the job, not the start.
Dick Goulet ____________________Reply Separator____________________ Author: Vladimir Begun <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 1/22/2003 9:40 AM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > One potential problem with DBMS_JOBS as is being discussed here is that Oracle > computes the next_date at the end of the job. They do that so that if a job -- INTERVAL is a date function, evaluated immediately before the job starts -- executing... > runs longer than it's schedule interval the two invocations will not run into > each other. Now as discussed, if the job is scheduled to start at 9:00 AM and > runbs for 5 minutes it's next_date for run #2 will be 9:20, not 9:15, and it > will creep 5 minutes every time. Regards, -- Vladimir Begun The statements and opinions expressed here are my own and do not necessarily represent those of Oracle Corporation. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Vladimir Begun INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).