Re: Scheduling a job using DBMS_JOB package

The back ground processes are controlled by two init.ora setting. job_queue_interval - Number of seconds between checking the job queue for jobs to be run
job_queue_processes - number of background processes (SNP?) to spawn on database startup.

Tansel Ozkan wrote:
>
> 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.
> ********************
>
> 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 Tue Feb 24 1998 - 00:00:00 CST