Scheduler Jobs Refuse To Restart At The Scheduled Time (Doc ID 1310649.1)

Last updated on JANUARY 07, 2025

Applies to:

Symptoms

A fresh created job refuse to run at the scheduled interval.
A manual run with using DBMS_SCHEDULER.RUN_JOB does work without problems,
but the next start date counted by the repeat_interval doesn't have an effect. The job will not run automatic at this time.
But the job will be executed sometimes later, in this case hours later!
The job does only execute a simple procedure, but has following attributes set:

Changes

Job Attributes:
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DBMS_SCHEDULER.SET_ATTRIBUTE (
name => 'TEST_JOB',
attribute => 'job_weight',
value => 3 );
--
DBMS_SCHEDULER.SET_ATTRIBUTE (
name => 'TEST_JOB',
attribute => 'job_priority',
value => 5 );

Cause

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