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10g introduced the new job scheduler, presumably to replace the previous dbms_job functionality.

I wish someone had told all RDBMS developers about that, because there are still a lot of functions inside Oracle that use the previous dbms_job. But that is not the subject of this entry.

Now, one of the new pieces of functionality that makes use of the scheduler is the “maintenance window” and

Only start if you’ve got plenty of time on your hands.

Cat with Bow Golf

I usually get a feel for “what’s hot” in the marketplace by the number of books on the shelves at my favorite bookstore. A couple years ago there was six shelves at my Borders store filled with books on Oracle. Oracle for Dummies, PL/SQL, and scores of Certification books. I was quite surprised to find only three books on Oracle at the same store this past weekend.

MySQL still has some respect with about a 1/2 shelf. .Net clocked in with about 5 or 6 shelves with a smattering here and there of Java and the associated technologies. Good old Perl shared half a shelf with PHP. But I feel left behind because I don’t know Excel Macros (about 12 shelves).

Maybe Oracle has really achieved a self-tuning, self-managing database and we don’t need books anymore.

Please excuse me while I apply four more patches to my “up-to-date” 10.2.0.3 installation.

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Now that I’ve left HP/PolyServe, I’ve gotten a few emails from readers looking for files that I linked to that resided on HP/PolyServe systems. I’ve also gotten quite a few emails about pages found by search engines, but don’t load (Error 404) once you come to my site. As for the latter, there are […]