How to enable/disable a scheduled job?

Using the package DBMS_SCHEDULER one can enable/disable jobs.

To disable job: This disables the job from running
SQL> exec dbms_scheduler.disable(‘GATHER_STATS_JOB’);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

– check job status
SQL> select job_name, enabled from DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS WHERE job_name = ‘GATHER_STATS_JOB’;

JOB_NAME ENABL
————————- —–
GATHER_STATS_JOB FALSE

To enable job:
SQL> exec dbms_scheduler.enable(‘GATHER_STATS_JOB’);

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

– check job status
SQL> select job_name, enabled from DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS WHERE job_name = ‘GATHER_STATS_JOB’;

JOB_NAME ENABL
————————- —–
GATHER_STATS_JOB TRUE

How to find jobs currently running or history about the jobs?

In 10g one can find the jobs that are currently running by querying the following view

SELECT job_name, session_id, running_instance, elapsed_time, cpu_used FROM dba_scheduler_running_jobs;

Also one can use the following view to find the history details of job that has run.

SELECT job_name, log_date, status, actual_start_date, run_duration, cpu_used FROM dba_scheduler_job_run_details;

To find the jobs that haven’t succeeded
SELECT job_name, log_date, status, actual_start_date, run_duration, cpu_used FROM dba_scheduler_job_run_details where status ‘SUCCEEDED’;