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Thread: Sleep Command for PL/SQL

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    Is there a sleep type command for PL/SQL? I want to be able to pause my program for 5 minutes and then continue on. Any ideas?

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    DBMS_LOCK.SLEEP (seconds IN NUMBER);

    http://download-east.oracle.com/otnd...l6a.htm#998467

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    It is good to be aware of some nasty bugs regarding DBMS_LOCK.SLEEP, particulary if you want to have relatively accurate sleeping intervals or if you want to sleep for a longer period of time (sey for more than half an hour). Those bugs are described at the "BUG Warning" of the following article:

    http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/faq/sleep.html

    Those bugs were present in all release up to 8i (If I remember correctly I last checked and reported them to Oracle as bugs on 8.1.7, I haven't took my time to test if they have been resolved on 9i).
    Jurij Modic
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    Thanks Jury a lot.
    I didn't now about this problem.

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