Automated maintenance tasks are tasks that are started automatically at regular intervals to perform maintenance operations on the database. An example is a task that gathers statistics on schema objects for the query optimizer. Automated maintenance tasks run in maintenance windows, which are predefined time intervals that are intended to occur during a period of low system load. You can customize maintenance windows based on the resource usage patterns of your database, or disable certain default windows from running. You can also create your own maintenance windows.
SQL> select client_name, task_name, operation_name, status from dba_autotask_task;
CLIENT_NAME TASK_NAME OPERATION_NAME STATUS
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sql tuning advisor AUTO_SQL_TUNING_PROG automatic sql tuning task ENABLED
auto optimizer stats collection gather_stats_prog auto optimizer stats job ENABLED
auto space advisor auto_space_advisor_prog auto space advisor job ENABLED