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Oracle® Database Administrator's Guide
11g Release 2 (11.2)

Part Number E10595-04
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Automated Maintenance Tasks Reference

This section contains the following reference topics for automated maintenance tasks:

Predefined Maintenance Windows

By default there are seven predefined maintenance windows, each one representing a day of the week. The weekend maintenance windows, SATURDAY_WINDOW and SUNDAY_WINDOW, are longer in duration than the weekday maintenance windows. The window group MAINTENANCE_WINDOW_GROUP consists of these seven windows. The list of predefined maintenance windows is given in Table 25-1.

Table 25-1 Predefined Maintenance Windows

Window Name Description

MONDAY_WINDOW

Starts at 10 p.m. on Monday and ends at 2 a.m.

TUESDAY_WINDOW

Starts at 10 p.m. on Tuesday and ends at 2 a.m.

WEDNESDAY_WINDOW

Starts at 10 p.m. on Wednesday and ends at 2 a.m.

THURSDAY_WINDOW

Starts at 10 p.m. on Thursday and ends at 2 a.m.

FRIDAY_WINDOW

Starts at 10 p.m. on Friday and ends at 2 a.m.

SATURDAY_WINDOW

Starts at 6 a.m. on Saturday and is 20 hours long.

SUNDAY_WINDOW

Starts at 6 a.m. on Sunday and is 20 hours long.


Automated Maintenance Tasks Database Dictionary Views

Table 25-2 displays information about database dictionary views for automated maintenance tasks:

Table 25-2 Automated Maintenance Tasks Database Dictionary Views

View Name Description

DBA_AUTOTASK_CLIENT_JOB

Contains information about currently running Scheduler jobs created for automated maintenance tasks. It provides information about some objects targeted by those jobs, as well as some additional statistics from previous instantiations of the same task. Some of this additional data is taken from generic Scheduler views.

DBA_AUTOTASK_CLIENT

Provides statistical data for each automated maintenance task over 7-day and 30-day periods.

DBA_AUTOTASK_JOB_HISTORY

Lists the history of automated maintenance task job runs. Jobs are added to this view after they finish executing.

DBA_AUTOTASK_WINDOW_CLIENTS

Lists the windows that belong to MAINTENANCE_WINDOW_GROUP, along with the Enabled or Disabled status for the window for each maintenance task. Primarily used by Enterprise Manager.

DBA_AUTOTASK_CLIENT_HISTORY

Provides per-window history of job execution counts for each automated maintenance task. This information is viewable in the Job History page of Enterprise Manager.


See Also:

"Resource Manager Data Dictionary Views" for column descriptions for views.