Re: stupid dbms_job question

An interval of
trunc(sysdate)+(trunc(to_char(sysdate,'sssss')/900)+1)*5/24/60

ought to give you every 5 minutes. Courtesy of Tom...

On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 10:29, Gene Sais wrote:
> It's called cron :). Or you could run a shell script that executes
> then sleeps for 5 mins.
> >>> rgaffuri_at_cox.net 10/23/03 10:09AM >>>
> im trying to submit a job that runs every 5 minuts. Only way I can get
> the submit to work is as follows...
>
> variable jobno number;
> variable instno number;
> begin
> select instance_number into :instno from v$instance;
> dbms_job.submit(:jobno, 'statspack.snap;', trunc(sysdate+1/24,'HH'),
> 'trunc(SYSDATE+1/24,''HH'')', TRUE, :instno);
> commit;
> end;
>
> i then do:
>
> dbms_job.interval(:jobno,'trunc(sysdate+1/96)';
>
> commit;
>
> my next_date column in dba_jobs is set to 15 minutes in the future,
> HOWEVER, it doesnt actually run. The time passes, the next_date does
> not get set again to nother 15 minutes in the future and the job
> doesnt run.
>
> Ive read the manual. Read metalink. read asktom and Im obvious too
> stupid to figure this one out.
>
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