Title: Chapter 14: Using the Scheduler for Task Automation
Course: DEPT MC - ORACLE DATABASE MANAGEMENT II > Section: Unit 3 - Database Administration II

On many occasions, you, as a database administrator, or your users will need to automate scheduling and running jobs of many kinds—for example, performing maintenance work such as database backups, data loading and validation routines, generating reports, collecting optimizer statistics, or executing business processes.

The Scheduler facility can be used to schedule tasks to be run at some point in the future. The Scheduler can be coupled with the Resource Manager. It can activate Resource Manager plans and run jobs with priorities assigned to various Resource Manager consumer groups.

Chapter 16 Learning Outcomes:

- Ability to Create a job, program, and schedule
- Ability to Use a time-based or event-based schedule for executing Scheduler jobs
- Ability to Create lightweight jobs
- Ability to Use job chains to perform a series of related tasks
- Ability to Create Windows and Job Classes
- Ability to Use advanced Scheduler concepts to prioritize jobs

*Quizzes for Chapters 11 through Chapters 15 are all open until Exam 3 date.

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