I am trying to create a scheduled job in Oracle SQL Developer that would run once a month and I am testing the Scheduler/Jobs feature where I have created a simple SQL query to test the ability to do this. I have a simple table called "TEST123" and I can see that it works when I do "SELECT \* FROM TEST123;".

In SQL Developer I have a Job called "TEST1" which has a PL/SQL Block = "DROP TABLE TEST123;" to run immediately (though I have also tested this with running at a specific time).

After I see that I can still select from this test table and that the STATE of the job name is "FAILED". I left all other settings as default. What am I missing here? Why is it failing and is there a way to fix it?

SQL From Job Wizard:

```
BEGIN
    DBMS_SCHEDULER.CREATE_JOB (
            job_name => '"TEST1"',
            job_type => 'PLSQL_BLOCK',
            job_action => 'DROP TABLE MKTRD.TEST123;',
            number_of_arguments => 0,
            start_date => NULL,
            repeat_interval => NULL,
            end_date => NULL,
            enabled => FALSE,
            auto_drop => FALSE,
            comments => '');

    DBMS_SCHEDULER.SET_ATTRIBUTE( 
             name => '"TEST1"', 
             attribute => 'logging_level', value => DBMS_SCHEDULER.LOGGING_OFF);

    DBMS_SCHEDULER.enable(
             name => '"TEST1"');
END;

```

Error from Job Log:

```
 "ORA-06550: line 1, column 757:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "DROP" when expecting one of the following:

   ( begin case declare exit for goto if loop mod null pragma
   raise return select update while with <an identifier>
   <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> <<
   continue close current delete fetch lock insert open rollback
   savepoint set sql execute commit forall merge pipe purge
   json_exists json_value json_query json_object json_array
The symbol "lock was inserted before "DROP" to continue.
ORA-06550: line 1, column 781:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol ";" when expecting one of the following:

   . , @ in <an identifier>
   <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> partition subpartition
ORA-06550: line 1, column 856:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "end-of-file" when expecting one of the following:

   end not pragma final instantiable order overriding static
   member constructor map
"

```

Update: If I use the PLSQL Block syntax of

```
BEGIN
  DROP TABLE TEST123;
END

```

I still get an error of:

```
"ORA-06550: line 2, column 3:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "DROP" when expecting one of the following:

   ( begin case declare exit for goto if loop mod null pragma
   raise return select update while with <an identifier>
   <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> <a bind variable> <<
   continue close current delete fetch lock insert open rollback
   savepoint set sql execute commit forall merge pipe purge
   json_exists json_value json_query json_object json_array
The symbol "lock was inserted before "DROP" to continue.
ORA-06550: line 2, column 27:
PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol ";" when expecting one of the following:

   . , @ in <an identifier>
   <a double-quoted delimited-identifier> partition subpartition
"

```