START_DATE TIMESTAMP(6) WITH TIME ZONE   Original scheduled start date of the job (for an inline schedule)

And in this case is not a inline schedule.

You can read scheduler concepts in http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B14117_01/server.101/b10739/schedover.htm#i1106753

You can know next_start_date:

SQL> SELECT schedule_name FROM
  2  DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS WHERE JOB_NAME = 'GATHER_STATS_JOB';

SCHEDULE_NAME
-------------------------
MAINTENANCE_WINDOW_GROUP

SQL>
SQL> select w.window_name,w.start_date,w.repeat_interval,w.next_start_date from dba_scheduler_windows w , dba_scheduler_wingroup_members g where g.window_group_name = 'MAINTENANCE_WINDOW_GROUP' and g.window_name = w.window_name;

WINDOW_NAME      START_DATE      REPEAT_INTERVAL
---------------- --------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------
NEXT_START_DATE
---------------------------------------------
WEEKNIGHT_WINDOW                 freq=daily;byday=MON,TUE,WED,THU,FRI;byhour=22;byminute=0; bysecond=0
05/07/06 22:00:00,000000 +02:00

WEEKEND_WINDOW                   freq=daily;byday=SAT;byhour=0;byminute=0;bysecond=0
08/07/06 00:00:00,000000 +02:00

 Best Regards

Cheers Nigel,

I had sussed that out to be honest. What I don't understand is how why
you do not see the frequency of the job when querying the scheduler

SELECT start_date,end_date,next_run_date,last_start_date FROM
DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS WHERE JOB_NAME = 'GATHER_STATS_JOB'

START_DATE END_DATE   NEXT_RUN_DATE        LAST_START_DATE
---------- ---------- -------------------- --------------------
                                          04-JUL-06 22.00.00.8
                                          56571 +01:00

John

This job is created, and enabled automatically when you create a new
Oracle database under Oracle Database 10g. To see this job, use the
DBA_SCHEDULER_JOBS view

Disable thus:
exec dbms_scheduler.disable('GATHER_STATS_JOB');

See http://www.dbazine.com/olc/olc-articles/freeman2,
http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week20_10gdba.html,
etc...


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