if you're on unix you could just kick it off thru crontab which will reliably
run your job every friday...
mikeo
  -   Kevin Kostyszyn <kevin_at_dulcian.com> wrote:
> you can do it with the following code, however, it won't work unless you
> fire it off on the first day of everymonth.
> select next_day(sysdate, 'Friday')+21
> from dual
> 
> or you could substitute in the actual date
> select next_day('01-jan-2001', 'Friday')+21
> from dual
> 
> Kevin
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Lee Robertson
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> All,
> 
> Anyone know how I can select the last Friday in every month from dual. I
> just can't seem to figure this out. I am trying to test a job that needs to
> be submitted via dbms_job.isubmit on that day.
> 
> 
> TIA
> 
> 
> Lee Robertson
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