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Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases

You're reading from   Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases Schedule, manage, and execute jobs in Oracle 11g Databases that automate your business processes using Oracle Scheduler with this book and eBook

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2009
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781847195982
Length 240 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Ronald Rood Ronald Rood
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Mastering Oracle Scheduler in Oracle 11g Databases
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
1. Preface
1. Simple Jobs FREE CHAPTER 2. Simple Chain 3. Control the Scheduler 4. Managing Resources 5. Getting Out of the Database 6. Events 7. Debugging the Scheduler 8. The Scheduler in Real Life 9. Other Configurations 10. Scheduler GUI Tools

Job creation


Like most object types in the database, as seen at the beginning of Chapter 1, Oracle enables us to create Scheduler objects. The privileges create job and create external job are very important. They should normally be used when building an application system. Also, there is a create any job privilege, which can be useful when you need to create a job in a different schema. Normally, this privilege should not be granted to anyone. It will allow the grantee to run an arbitrary code on any schema, which is not particularly desirable. Instead, just log on to the correct schema and perform the tasks using the correct privileges. The following privileges can be used:

System Privilege

Description

create jobs

This privilege allows the grantee to create not only jobs but also chains, schedules, and programs. A schema can always alter and drop the scheduler objects in their own schemas even without the create jobs privilege. For chains, we need more privileges.

create external...

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