Problem with Oracle Job Scheduling

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The question:

I have a job that refreshes a materialised view refresh group on Oracle 19c. I wanted to refresh the group daily at midnight – trunc(sysdate)? The job was made using using the following PL/SQL:

  BEGIN
  DBMS_REFRESH.MAKE (
        name => 'REFG_1',
        list => '', 
        next_date => trunc(sysdate), 
        interval => 'SYSDATE + 1',
        implicit_destroy => FALSE, 
        rollback_seg => '',
        push_deferred_rpc => TRUE, 
        refresh_after_errors => FALSE);
  END;
  /

The MVs are getting refreshed daily. However, they are refreshing at 11:26AM (this coincides with the time I originally created the job).

How do I create this job to ensure it refreshes at midnight each night?

The Solutions:

Below are the methods you can try. The first solution is probably the best. Try others if the first one doesn’t work. Senior developers aren’t just copying/pasting – they read the methods carefully & apply them wisely to each case.

Method 1

Interval should be trunc(sysdate)+1 to mean midnight tomorrow.

Your next_date will be evaluated to midnight today (in the past) so the first refresh will happen ASAP. You probably want this to also be tomorrow midnight

Method 2

The next execution time (SYSDATE+1 in your case) of your job is evaluated when the previous job has been finished. Thus it will be shifted more and more.

Either use TRUNC(SYSDATE)+1 or change to modern Scheduler Jobs were you have more freedom.


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