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Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases

By : Ronald Rood
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Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases

By: Ronald Rood

Overview of this book

Scheduler (DBMS_SCHEDULER) is included in Oracle Database and is a tool for the automation, management, and control of jobs. It enables users to schedule jobs running inside the database such as PL/SQL procedures or PL/SQL blocks, as well as jobs running outside the database like shell scripts. Scheduler ensures that jobs are run on time, automates business processes, and optimizes the use of available resources. You just need to specify a fixed date and time and Scheduler will do the rest. What if you don't know the precise time to execute your job? Nothing to worry about, you can specify an event upon which you want your job to be done and Scheduler will execute your job at the appropriate time. Although scheduling sounds quite easy, it requires programming skills and knowledge to set up such a powerful, intelligent scheduler for your project. This book is your practical guide to DBMS_SCHEDULER for setting up platform-independent schedules that automate the execution of time-based or event-based job processes. It will show you how to automate business processes, and help you manage and monitor those jobs efficiently and effectively. It explains how Scheduler can be used to achieve the tasks you need to make happen in the real world. With a little understanding of how the Scheduler can be used and what kind of control it gives, you will be able to recognize the real power that many known enterprise-class schedulers ñ with serious price tags ñ cannot compete with. You will see how running a specific program can be made dependent on the successful running of certain other programs, and how to separate various tasks using the built-in security mechanisms. You will learn to manage resources to balance the load on your system, and gain increased database performance.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
Preface

Summary


Resources should be managed using the Resource Manager. When jobs are controlled by individual schedules, a lot can be done manually by making sure that plenty of resources are always available.

When jobs are controlled by a window, it is very important to have a good Resource Manager plan in place. Otherwise, all the jobs that have been submitted will flood the system at window open time—causing lots of waits and, most likely, lots of trouble. The goal for the Resource Manager is to make the jobs go in the fastest possible way through the system. Other things we have seen are:

  • How to create a resource consumer group

  • How to grant privileges to switch a resource consumer group to a user

  • How to couple a job_class to a resource consumer group

  • How to couple a job_class to an existing job

  • How to create a Resource Manager plan using DB Console

  • How to control the number of active sessions to be equal to the number of jobs in a Resource Manager plan using the session pool

  • How to control the maximal...