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oracle 10g submit job function error

hi all, I'm trying to schedule a job in oracle 10g but it says: ORA-01846: not a valid day of the week. Heres my code: declare v_job_id1 number(19,0); v_job_id2 number(19,0); begin dbms_job.submit(v_job_id1, 'CTX_DDL.OPTIMIZE_INDEX(''PSO_KEYWORD_SEARCH_IDX'', ''FULL'', 45);', NEXT_DAY(TRUNC(SYSDATE), 4) + 13/24, NEXT_DAY...

How authentic is PTC(paid to click) websites ?

I know this is not a directly an SO question but as i am planning to cut my programming hours and maintain my income , as i have exams coming and need more attention to my studies i heard few people claiming these sites as fraud and some stating that it really brings out the cash .How genuine are these paybacks ? Expect answers from ex...

Jobs related to programming languages

This is more of a directional question. I've been taking computer science classes for about 2 years(a graduate with my A.S. degree this fall) and I'm sort of wondering everyones opinion on where the market is headed towards today with programming languages. I'm getting better with c++ but I still have a lot to learn and I'm pretty knowle...

Job asks for J2SE skill but working on server-side

I am gonna have an interview with a company working on stock trading system which only requires core Java skill. However, the requirements list many server related stuff as follow: Strong server-side Java (no UI) Strong JUnit testing Web service knowledge, HTTP / HTTPS Lucene Performance tuning experience will be desirable Continuous i...

Are there any simple and effective Open Source Java database-backed queue libraries?

I have a few different apps which need robust database-backed job/task queues, and so far I've had trouble identifying any promising candidates. I'd love some suggestions! BTW, by database-backed I intend something which persists job data and status to a JDBC DB for reliability purposes. Oh, I'm specifically looking for a library. I'm ...

Working as a graduate

I started my first graduate job couple of days ago, but I'm quite surprised and a frustrated. My mentor is a person who has been working in the company for couple of months. He is really nice guy but I can see he is also frustrated, and my manager seems to be ok with it. I was going to raised this issue along other ones but I thought th...

Typical Pay or am I being taken advantage of?

I have an internship for a small engineering company. I have been working about three years now. What started as an internship turned into a full-out job, and I have worked to take a total of two projects public. I support my software and help on other production tasks throughout the company. My pay is 10.25 an hour. This was my pay whe...

What's the best way to start a background process, that can get accessed later on

Hi, I am currently developing a RubyGem that provides an executable. The executable keeps track of the state of some log files using the FSSM gem. This executable should get started, do something in background, and get stopped later on. For example: $ my_executable start # do something different... $ my_executable stop I would firs...

Java "Printer is not accepting jobs" old Brother printers

Hello, I have client which has a problem with printing from JAVA applications, using old Brother printers. The exception he gets is "Printer is not accepting jobs". Other applications (not java applications) manage to print using these printers. He switched to a new printer (also Brother), without changing the driver and then it worke...

Are there any forums or job portals that have jobs that require working online from home?

Are there any forums or job portals that have jobs that require working online from home? ...

how do programmers get started without a college background?

Can anyone share how they have managed to get into the business without a degree? How long did it take to get an entry level job and how long did it take to get to the position where you are today? ...

Explain "ORA-01870: the intervals or datetimes are not mutually comparable"

When this code is executed in SQL Developer against Oracle 11g I get an error, begin dbms_scheduler.create_job( job_name => 'comuni_34', job_type => 'plsql_block', job_action => 'begin com_auth_api.expire_old_passwords; end;', start_date => to_date('2009-jan-01 01:15:00', 'yyyy-mon-dd hh24:mi:ss'), repeat_interval => 'freq=dai...

Junior Software Engineer (C++) Interview Advice

Hey guys.Tomorrow I have a phone interview with a good company for a Junior Software Engineer position. I have been out of the university with a bachelors for 3 months now, and am a bit rusty on my C++, as it has been a few semesters since I worked with it. I am currently reviewing it (working on pointers at the moment) to be prepared fo...

Java or C# for windows ui programming

Ok, so I have a thread that is already similar to this, related to jobs and languages but this is a more direct question. For windows UI programming, do you prefer Java or C#? On that note, one must consider the life of a language. How long will java last versus c#? And again, what is more widely used for windows UI programming between t...

Do you know any good asp.net job board, eventually open source or almost free?

Did you use or programmed such a web application? There are plenty of job boards in php, but do you know any in asp.net mvc? Thanks. ...

Developers job looking site in US

Hi guys, could you please suggest best job looking site for US? One that you used and happy about it. Thanks, ...

How many programmers are there in America?

I have heard anything from 1 in 100 working adults to 1 in 10 working adults -- does anybody have any good data? UPDATE: Well, I found the answer. About 1 in 200: 800,000 programmers in the US[0]. 150,000,000 workers in the US[1]. [0] http://money.cnn.com/magazines/moneymag/bestjobs/2009/snapshots/12.html [1] http://factfinder.cens...

Shifted my profile from android developer to web application developer. Bad decision?

I am a masters student pursuing my final semester in an industry, training. Until recently I was working as an android developer, but alas I did not find the assignment challenging enough. Seemed like I was not fulfilling the purpose of learning the "art of programming" because the IDE made my life far too simple. I made a request to my...

Oracle scheduled job fails

Hi I am using Oracle 10g and using following script to create the job CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE archtemp AS BEGIN UPDATE ARCH_TEMP SET ARCH_DATE = SYSDATE; COMMIT; END archtemp; VAR jobno NUMBER; BEGIN DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT(:jobno, 'archtemp;', SYSDATE, 'sysdate + 1/1440'); COMMIT; END; The job never executes automatically...

I forgot allmost all about java! Can I still be a java programmer??

So I took a course in java for like two years ago and barely passes it. And have not yet graduated from college, so I'm running out of money to fund my education and I'm considering to just jump right into the market. And I got a job offer to be a java developer, the company is in the finance sector and it's an entry level, my guess is ...