Category Archives: SQL Agent Jobs
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One job to rule them all
Leave a commentAugust 31, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher
Three batch jobs that run all night.Seven for the DBAs to maintain and protect.Nine quick little jobs run by the …
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SQL Agent job history on a Managed Instance
4July 25, 2023 by Kenneth Fisher
The defaults for saving SQL Agent Job history are ok (at best), so you should probably check and update them …
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All jobs that ran during a given time frame.
2May 6, 2021 by Kenneth Fisher
Short post today. Simple query that will tell you every job that ran between two datetime stamps. Note: this of …
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How do I let someone execute a SQL Agent job they don’t own?
12April 15, 2019 by Kenneth Fisher
In my last post I discussed the fact that SQL Ids can, in fact, be useful on an instance that …
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Command shell steps in SQL Agent jobs only process a single command.
1April 23, 2018 by Kenneth Fisher
I was working on a SQL Agent job recently that required a series of command shell commands. And it would …
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Default SQL Agent Reports – Top Jobs
3July 24, 2017 by Kenneth Fisher
Looking at what a job has been doing is important. Particularly if something is going wrong. Now there are several …
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Certificates, Proxies and Jobs! Oh My!
3April 27, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
Oh Noes! I have a job that requires me to run an SSIS package, cmdshell script, etc. And I need …
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Reusing schedules in SQL Agent
1January 25, 2016 by Kenneth Fisher
I’m a big fan of automation. You get it written, tested, and scheduled, then you just sit back and monitor …
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Finding the error from a failed job.
5October 7, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
This is a fairly simple one once you’ve seen it, but then so are lots of things :). Let’s say …
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Building a job to monitor other jobs
5May 4, 2015 by Kenneth Fisher
The other day Tom Roush (b/t) and Tim Radney (b/t) were having a discussion on twitter about using scheduled windows …
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