I have not had the task schedules fail for several versions of windows. I think it is start /b that is the equivalent of nohup On 10/23/08, Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > A number of folks have suggested 'at'. > > Personally, I abandoned the use of 'at' about 6 years ago, as it was > unreliable. > > For scheduled jobs on Windows, I use a perl cron service. > It has never failed, unlike 'at'. > > Another way is to use Cygwin, if that's allowed at your site. > > > Jared Still > Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist > > > > On Thu, Oct 23, 2008 at 7:05 AM, Dba DBA > <oracledbaquestions@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > >> I am stuck on a windows DB server. I need to run some .sql scripts from >> the >> command line in the background. anyone know how to do this in windows? >> >> I have not used windows for a DB server in years... >> > -- Sent from Google Mail for mobile | mobile.google.com Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l