Sign Up to our social questions and Answers Engine to ask questions, answer people’s questions, and connect with other people.
Login to our social questions & Answers Engine to ask questions answer people’s questions & connect with other people.
Lost your password? Please enter your email address. You will receive a link and will create a new password via email.
Please briefly explain why you feel this question should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this answer should be reported.
Please briefly explain why you feel this user should be reported.
I have a crontab job run at 00:00 to update my website database every night;
To prevent the job from brreaking end user’s operation on website, should I stop my website during the job is running? Is there any better alternate course? Thanks in advance!
Oracle, like other DBMSs, allows concurrent access to the data, even in case of concurrent readings and writings.
So yes, the users will still be able to access the database during the update job. Depending on what the update job might do and its duration, there might be interferences, but I don’t know the details.
Normally, you should try to define the update job in such a way to make sure that there are no interferences with user activities, if possible, instead of shutting down the site while updating.