RE: [Q] sleep function on ORACLE?

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 7 Apr 2004 11:04:24 -0700
Message-ID: <OF84FAAB52.24C85D24-ON88256E6F.0062FE6C-88256E6F.006348B4@radisys.com>

> Dbms_lock.sleep() ...
> Beware that for large values of sleep time, oracle seems to drift ...
> Jared had a script to test this some time ago.

see http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/sleep.html

There is an 'accusleep' procedure there. I see that an improvement was made
to it by Jeff Legge. It also seems a 'millisecond' in version 9.2 is still 1/1024, rather
than 1/1000.

Jared

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