{"id":1934,"date":"2014-08-30T04:11:44","date_gmt":"2014-08-30T04:11:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/?page_id=1934"},"modified":"2015-05-03T09:52:00","modified_gmt":"2015-05-03T09:52:00","slug":"background-job","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/general-disclaimer\/background-job\/","title":{"rendered":"Background Job"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What is a Background Job?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Background jobs are long running tasks which if executed in foreground would occupy a dialog work process for a long time which may affect the dialog performance. Hence, these jobs should be run in background which not only gets the job executed but also doesn&#8217;t affect the dialog performance.<\/p>\n<p>A background job can be scheduled to execute a program or a report\u00a0at a specific time without the intervention of the user. The administrator can monitor the background jobs and can see the results.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Although any job can be executed in the background, the basic reason behind the use of background jobs is to execute those jobs which consume dialog work processes for a very long time, if executed interactively (in the foreground). This impacts the dialog performance.<\/p>\n<p>Hence, following are the\u00a0areas where background jobs are used:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>When there is a large amount of data to be processed.<\/li>\n<li>To execute periodic jobs without human intervention.<\/li>\n<li>When we don&#8217;t want to execute a program in normal working hours. In such a case it can be executed at a more convenient time other than the normal working hours.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; What is a Background Job? Background jobs are long running tasks which if executed in foreground would occupy a dialog work process for a long time which may affect the dialog performance. Hence, these jobs should be run in background which not only gets&nbsp;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/general-disclaimer\/background-job\/\">&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":38,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1934"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1936,"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1934\/revisions\/1936"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/38"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sapsecurityanalyst.com\/WP\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}