Oracle Database provides advanced job scheduling capabilities through Oracle Scheduler (the Scheduler). This chapter introduces you to Scheduler concepts and includes the following topics:
Note:
This chapter discusses the use of the Oracle-supplied
DBMS_SCHEDULER package to administer scheduling capabilities. You can also use Oracle Enterprise Manager (EM) as an easy-to-use graphical interface for many of the same capabilities.
See the Oracle Database PL/SQL Packages and Types Reference for DBMS_SCHEDULER syntax and the Oracle Enterprise Manager documentation set for more information regarding EM.
