RE: PL/SQL Question

From: Paul Baumgartel <PaulB_at_instipro.com>
Date: Fri, 11 May 2001 09:42:22 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0030106C.20010511085049@fatcity.com>

There is indeed a "sleep", in dbms_lock, taking a single argument "seconds".

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Sent: Friday, May 11, 2001 11:20 AM
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I need to whip out a PL/SQL procedure real quick today and have a quick question for fellow-listers ( since today is Friday, hopefully I don't get RTFMed on this one :) )
The purpose of my procedure is to collect stats from v$session_wait periodically ( every second for example) and pump the data into a stats table.
But how to make the procedure to wait for a specified time? I know of the option of using dbms_jobs to handle this. But I am wondering if there is a similar
function in PL/SQL similar as the Unix 'sleep' command.

TIA Dennis Meng
Database Administrator
Focal Communications
847-954-8328

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