RE: No PL/SQL Timer Function

From: Weaver, Walt <wweaver_at_rightnowtech.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 10:23:47 -0600
Message-Id: <10562.112286@fatcity.com>

Steve,

Will DBMS_LOCK.SLEEP work for you?

--Walt Weaver
  Bozeman, Montana, USA

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Orr [mailto:sorr_at_arzoo.com]
Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 10:01 AM
To: Oracle-L; Oracledba
Subject: No PL/SQL Timer Function

I can't find a timer function in PL/SQL. Without a major development effort I'd like to QUICKLY write a monitoring script which executes a query at a given interval over a certain period of time. Here's a hypothetical example... a query against the v$session and v$access tables every 15 seconds for the next 60 minutes. I need something like a UNIX shell "sleep 15" but I want the timer looping to be from a persistent connection so there's no connect/disconnect from the database every few seconds. I guess I could get a modulus of the results from DBMS_UTILITY.GET_TIME to develop my own timer function. Has anyone done something like this in PL/SQL? Any ideas? Please? Pretty please?

TIA,
Steve Orr

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