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... >