If you’re in the process of creating a SQL Server Agent job with T-SQL, you may be wondering whether to create its schedule with the sp_add_schedule stored procedure or the sp_add_jobschedule procedure.
Here’s a quick explanation of the difference between these two procedures.
Continue readingWhen you create a SQL Server Agent job, you have the option of creating a new schedule for that job or using one that already exists.
Job schedules can be managed independently of jobs. You can use sp_add_schedule to create the schedule and sp_attach_schedule to attach the schedule to a job.
This enables you to attach the same schedule to multiple jobs.
Continue readingSQL Server Agent is a Microsoft Windows service that executes scheduled administrative tasks, which are called jobs in SQL Server.
T-SQL includes a large collection of stored procedures that deal with SQL Server Agent jobs.
Here, we’ll use some of them to create and schedule a SQL Server Agent job.
You can also create SQL Server Agent jobs via the GUI (in SSMS) if you prefer.
Continue readingWhen you first create a SQL Server Agent job, you might want to do a quick test to see if it’s going to actually run without any issues.
This is quite straightforward when using the SSMS GUI, but how do you do it in T-SQL?
Answer: The sp_start_job stored procedure.
SQL Server Agent is a Microsoft Windows service that executes scheduled administrative tasks, which are called jobs in SQL Server.
You can create SQL Server Agent jobs with T-SQL or with the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) GUI.
Here’s how to do it using the SSMS GUI.
Continue readingIf you’ve created a SQL Server Agent job, and you’re now trying to test it to see if it will run properly, you may encounter an ugly error message that reads, among other things, “SQLServerAgent is not currently running so it cannot be notified of this action”.
Fortunately, this is easy to fix.
Continue readingIf you were trying to create a SQL Server Agent job for the first time, but a message popped up that confused you, read on.
Continue readingIf you’re creating a SQL Server Agent job for the first time, you might find that you need to enable the SQL Server Agent extended stored procedures (SQL Server Agent XPs) first.
When you use the SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) tool to start the SQL Server Agent service, these extended stored procedures are enabled automatically.
When you use T-SQL, you can enable the SQL Server Agent XPs with the sp_configure stored procedure.