Re: Does Oracle Have a Timer???

Ed Jennings (jennings_at_dca.net) wrote:
: I'm looking for a timer for Oracle. I want to scan a staging table
: at regular intervals (say every 2 hours). I know such a feature
: exists in the replication processes, but we don't have a license for
: it. Is there another way I can accomplish this without writing a
: unix daemon to log into the database? I want to keep it all within
: the rdbms if possible.
 

: Any ideas???

Well it's not entirely in the rdbms, but you could use 'at' and 'cron' without writing a daemon...

Randy :)

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