RE: DBMS_JOB interval wierdness

Yup, Kevin, it was the job erroring that was causing it to resubmit itself every 24 hours. At least after 11 or so failures, it did. I threw in some error trapping, and all's well.

Thanks!

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
Rich.Jesse_at_qtiworld.com              Quad/Tech International, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: kkennedy [mailto:kkennedy_at_firstpoint.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 1:44 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: DBMS_JOB interval wierdness
>
>
> When the job aborts, it increments the failures column (until
> it hits the broken point at 16 failures) and resubmits itself
> with an internally calculated restart time.
>
> From the Oracle Administrators Guide:
> If a job returns an error while Oracle is attempting to
> execute it, Oracle tries to execute it again. The first
> attempt is made after one minute, the second attempt after
> two minutes, the third after four minutes, and so on, with
> the interval doubling between each attempt. When the retry
> interval exceeds the execution interval, Oracle continues to
> retry the job at the normal execution interval. However, if
> the job fails 16 times, Oracle automatically marks the job as
> broken and no longer tries to execute it.
>
> Works that way here. I can't say why yours reruns every day
> at 1PM. I can say that if you trap the error and get a
> normal completion, your problem is solved.
>
> Kevin Kennedy
> First Point Energy Corporation

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