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Ora-27477 While Creating a Job Through the Job Scheduler (Doc ID 390732.1)

Last updated on JULY 05, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.


Symptoms

When you are trying to create a Job using the Job scheduler:

BEGIN
DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB (
job_name => 'DAILY_ACCOUNT_INFO'
,job_type => 'PLSQL_BLOCK'
,job_action => 'begin REF_ADMIN.DAILY_ACCOUNT_INFO(); end;'
,schedule_name => 'MID_NIGHT'
,enabled => FALSE
,comments => 'creates a daily listing of pptl and tag deposit at midnight'
);
END;


While executing it you get the following error:

BEGIN
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-27477: "REF_ADMIN.DAILY_ACCOUNT_INFO" already exists
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_ISCHED", line 99
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_SCHEDULER", line 348
ORA-06512: at line 2

Changes

Creating a job through the Job scheduler

Cause

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