Re: Fun with SYSDATE, TRUNC() and rounding......

On 5/31/06, GovindanK <gkatteri@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 

  Mark

Useful posting this is.  I wish to point to the following link (though
it is not 100% similar, but it tells how to skip a window). Thought  others
may find it useful.


http://asktom.oracle.com/pls/ask/f?p=4950:8:::::F4950_P8_DISPLAYID:2328991547163#36924160898182

HTH

GovindanK

On Tue, 30 May 2006 14:15:07 -0400, "Bobak, Mark" <Mark.Bobak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
said:

So, this was a fun little exercise…..

Everyone knows that trunc(sysdate) will return the current date, rounded
to midnight, that is, currently, for me, it would return '2006-05-30
00:00:00' (assuming your nls_date_format is set appropriately).


Once intervals etc start getting narky (ie, complex) I often find it easier
just to pass next_date to the job, ie

dbms_job.submit(:gj, 'my_proc(next_date)')

In this way, the routine itself has control over its interval so you can do
all sorts of fancy things like skip times, increase or reduce frequency etc
etc etc

hth


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