How to execute a procedure with DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB procedure

Question

I want to create a job that would drop a database object at a given date. The job created all right but the procedure is not executed. Tried executing the procedure alone an

Answer 1

It apears to me that you have missed some quote marks in the DBMS_JOBS setup call.

Try this:

DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB(job_name        => v_jobnam,
                          job_type        => 'PLSQL_BLOCK',
                          JOB_ACTION      => 'BEGIN DROP_OBJ1(''' || v_objnam 
                                             || ''', ''' || v_objtyp || ''', '''
                                             || v_schema || ''',' || v_objid 
                                             || '); END;',
                          start_date      => SYSTIMESTAMP,
                          repeat_interval => 'freq=secondly; bysecond=0',
                          end_date        => NULL,
                          enabled         => TRUE,
                          comments        => 'Calls PLSQL once');

If this is not the solution I will setup your code on a database and try it myself.