Impeccable timing I must say :-) . Thanks Jared, this worked a treat. tell me where I can mail you a beer ;) Thanks again. Nelson -----Original Message----- From: Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Jared.Still@xxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Thursday, March 04, 2004 1:59 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: index refresh as job How's this for timing? I did this just today, works fine. HTH, Jared PS. You need to login as CTXSYS and run 'grant select on ctx_indexes to cquser;' ----------------- procedure to sync -------------------- -- ctx_sync.sql -- setup procedure to sync ctx/intermedia/oracle_text/whatever_it_is_this_month -- indexes create or replace procedure ctx_sync is begin for irec in ( select idx_name from ctxsys.ctx_indexes where idx_owner = USER ) loop ctx_ddl.sync_index(irec.idx_name); --dbms_output.put_line(irec.idx_name); end loop; end; / show error procedure ctx_sync ----------------------- create the job ---------------------------------- -- job_submit.sql -- run every 10 minutes variable jobno number; begin dbms_job.submit( :jobno , 'ctx_sync;' -- every 10 minutes at 00,10,20,30,40 and 50 , trunc(sysdate,'hh24') + ( ( 10 + ( 10 * floor(to_number(to_char(sysdate,'mi')) / 10))) / ( 24 * 60 )) , 'trunc(sysdate,''hh24'') + ( ( 10 + ( 10 * floor(to_number(to_char(sysdate,''mi'')) / 10))) / ( 24 * 60 ))' ); commit; end; / print :jobno "Nelson Flores" <nflores@xxxxxxxxx> Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 03/04/2004 12:44 AM Please respond to oracle-l To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc: Subject: index refresh as job Hi list, It's late and I'm in a little bit of a pickle . The problem is synchronizing a text index using a job. I create the job fine, but I query user_jobs, and I keep on getting failures . I create the job (with suitable account privs) with the following. DECLARE v_jobno number; BEGIN dbms_job.submit(job=>v_jobno, what=>'ctx_ddl.sync_index(''"FOOBAR"."SEARCH_IDX"'' );', next_date=>sysdate+1/24, interval=>'sysdate+1/24'); END; The job is created fine. I run exec ctx_ddl.sync_index('"FOOBAR"."SEARCH_IDX"'); and it works fine and dandy, but every time the job is invoked it returns an error. Anyone have any ideas ? Is there a better way to do this???? (I hate having to depend on a job for this) BTW I'm doing this on my laptop which is 9.2.0.1.0 on Win XP.. Thanks in advance Nelson