Tag Archives: Schedule

Schedule Batch Apex For Every Hour

Batch Class:

global class accountBatch implements Database.Batchable<sobject> {
  
    global Database.QueryLocator start(Database.BatchableContext bc){
      
        String query = 'SELECT Id, Name FROM Account';
        return Database.getQueryLocator(query);
    }
      
    global void execute(Database.BatchableContext bc, List<account> scope) {
      
        for(Account a : scope) {
            a.Name = a.Name + 'Updated';
        }
        update scope;
    } 
      
    global void finish(Database.BatchableContext bc) {
      
    }
}

Scheduled Class:

global class accountBatchSchedule implements Schedulable{
	global void execute(SchedulableContext sc) {
		//invoke the batch class
        Database.executeBatch(new accountBatch());
    }
}

Execute below code from anonymous window in developer console. This will scheduled the job to run in every hour starting from 12:00 AM.

accountBatchSchedule sc = new accountBatchSchedule();
//Define cron expression
String cronExp = '0 0 * * * ?';
String jobID = System.schedule('Update Account', cronExp, sc);