Scheduling a job using DBMS_JOB package

Hello everyone,

I am trying to schedule a job using the DBMS_JOB package. In the help file, I read the following.

• NEXT_DATE is the date at which the job will next be automatically run,assuming there are background processes attempting to run it.

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What is meant by 'background processes'? How do these processes start? Are there any special operations that we have to perform before we can use the DBMS_JOB package?

Thanks..

Tansel Received on Mon Feb 23 1998 - 00:00:00 CST