Oracle-L: RE: RE: Job Scheduler in 9i

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <Rajendra.Jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:50:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004794E6.20020610115036@fatcity.com>

Dick,

Thanks, and yes I understand both, but we had really bad luck with dbms_job which would stop working without any errors. OWS was unable to give a quick fix, and eventually it turned out that one of the parameters (I think job_queue_processes) was getting reset or something like that. We applied the patch but never used dbms_job again.

Our Unix guys are pretty good at this, so that part I really never worry about. The scenario you mentioned is perfectly valid and I think we have some steps outlined in case of disaster recovery. My experience about cron is on AIX, DG-UX and Solaris.

Raj

Rajendra Jamadagni MIS, ESPN Inc.
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-----Original Message-----
Sent: Monday, June 10, 2002 2:31 PM
To: Jamadagni; Rajendra; Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Raj,

WARNING: Cron has been known to fail around here leaving one heck of a mess
behind. The primary culprit is when you have a power failure. In our case the
power failure lasted more than 8 hours. When the computer restarted the cron
job's time had passed & it would not start for another week by itself. On the
other hand a dbms_job that should have started at about the same time did. We
use both, but you have to understand the weaknesses of both.

Dick Goulet

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