Scheduling When Aging Starts

Call the ttAgingScheduleNow built-in procedure to schedule the aging process.

The aging process starts as soon as you call the procedure unless there is already an aging process in progress, in which case it begins when that aging process has completed.

When you call ttAgingScheduleNow, the aging process starts regardless of whether the state is ON or OFF.

The aging process starts only once as a result of calling ttAgingScheduleNow does not change the aging state. If the aging state is OFF when you call ttAgingScheduleNow, then the aging process starts, but it does not continue after the process is complete. To continue aging, you must call ttAgingScheduleNow again or change the aging state to ON.

If the aging state is already set to ON, then ttAgingScheduleNow resets the aging cycle based on the time ttAgingScheduleNow was called.

You can control aging externally by disabling aging by using the ALTER TABLE statement with the SET AGING OFF clause. Then use ttAgingScheduleNow to start aging at the desired time.

Use ttAgingScheduleNow to start or reset aging for an individual table by specifying its name when you call the procedure. If you do not specify a table name, then ttAgingScheduleNow starts or resets aging on all of the tables in the database that have aging defined.