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Chapter 1 - External Oracle job scheduling

Introduction
External Oracle job scheduling
Using cron and crontab in UNIX and Linux
Using the Windows job schedulers
AT.EXE
Scheduled Tasks Wizard
SCHTASKS.EXE
Internal Oracle job Scheduling
Oracle 9i Scheduler Overview
Oracle 10g Scheduler Overview
Features comparison between dbms_job and dbms_scheduler
Migrating from dbms_job to dbms_scheduler
Summary

Chapter 2 - Configuring Oracle Job Scheduling

Introduction
Setting up a test environment
Overview and examples of dbms_job functions
Data dictionary views related to dbms_job
dba_jobs
dba_jobs_running
Overview and examples of dbms_scheduler functions
Scheduler Privileges
Programs
Schedules
Jobs
Job Classes
Windows
Window Groups
Enabling, disabling and setting attributes of scheduler objects
Data dictionary views related to dbms_scheduler
Summary

Chapter 3 - Time-Based Job Scheduling

Introduction
Dates
Timestamps
Intervals and Interval Literals
Calendar Syntax in Oracle 10g
Complex Date Rules for Job Execution
Summary


Chapter 4 - Chaining Oracle Jobs Together

Introduction
Creating a job chain
Conditional job creation
Conditional job enabling
Conditional job runs using Oracle Advanced Queuing
Conditional job runs using a custom table solution
Implementing error checking routines
Implementing conditional job execution
Sending email notifications of job errors
Using UTL_SMTP
Using UTL_MAIL in Oracle 10g
Running OS commands and scripts from PL/SQL
Summary

Chapter 5 - Monitoring Oracle Job Execution

Introduction
Monitoring Jobs (pre 10g)
Monitoring Jobs in 10g
Monitoring Sessions
Killing Oracle Sessions
DBMS_APPLICATION_INFO
DBMS_SYSTEM
Summary

Chapter 6 - Advanced Scheduling Topics

Introduction
Setting Scheduler Attributes
current_open_window
default_timezone
log_history
max_job_slave_processes
Job Priorities
Scheduler Logging
Job Logs
Job Run Details
Window Logs
Purging Logs
Resource Manager
Export/Import and the Scheduler
Services and Instance Stickiness
Security
Setting Scheduler Object Attributes
Summary