In Part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the basic components and some information you need to know before using the scheduler. Today’s post will cover using the API to create some basic objects. I’ll show how to use SQL Developer to simplify some of these tasks.

Today’s post will cover creating programs and jobs.

Programs

As I said in my last scheduler post: it all starts with the program. A program is a PL/SQL procedure (can be packaged but not a function), PL/SQL block or external OS program.

You do not need to define a program if you don’t want to.

OCFS? That sure sounds familiar! OFS, OCFS? Where have a I heard that before? Oh yeah, Oracle Cluster File System! So, now Oracle has a cloud file system? Cool!

OCFS is based on ASM Cluster File System (ACFS) and ASM Dynamic Volume Manager (ADVM). It looks like the marketing material also refers to OCFS as CloudFS. The idea is to use ASM functionality with 3rd party file systems to provide simplify management and improve utilization of storage systems. More importantly, and here is where the Cloud comes in, it provides elastic provisioning.