DB2: How to timely delete records

Question

I have a table in DB2 database that has a few columns, one of which is L_TIMESTAMP. The need is to delete records where difference between L_TIMESTAMP and CURRENT TIMESTAMP is greater than 5 minutes. This check needs to happen every hour. Please let me know if there is an approach to accomplish this at the DB end rather than scheduling a cron job at the appserver end.

Answer 1

The administrative task scheduler in DB2 would be a good way to accomplish this. You need to wrap the DELETE statement in a stored procedure, then submit it to the scheduler. The syntax for defining the schedule is based on cron but it is all handled inside DB2.

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