It is possible to use the SQL Server Agent to execute PowerShell scripts. If you've worked with the SQL Server Agent to run jobs on your server, you already know that whenever you define a job ...

I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server). If this was easy ...

Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install script. Previous versions of SQL Server had two command-line utilities: ISQL, which uses DB-Library; and ...

Another challenge of doing server migrations is moving the SQL Server Agent jobs and log-ins from one server to another. I've used SQL Server Integration Services to do this in the past and, at ...

Another effective automation method is using T-SQL Scripts with SQL Server Agent. This method is more popular with DBAs who operate within a database instance. In addition to the standard commands ...

SQL Server 2005 or later script to generate TRUNCATE statements for all tables. Anyone that has tried this on anything but the most simplistic database has found, as I did, that this won't work. Any ...

You should restart SQL Server Agent before launching the instance of SQL Server in single-user mode. Click "View," then "Object Explorer." Right-click "SQL Server Agent" and then click "Stop." ...

To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job. Using SQL Management Studio, create a new SQL Server Agent Job: Fill in the general details and then go to the Steps page to add a couple of steps.

SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) ... (eg an SQL Agent job) and right-clicking, an option presents itself to generate a script of the said job.

SQL Server Agent is a popular tool from Microsoft for scheduling programs to run on Microsoft's SQL Server database platform. A task is known as a "job," and it can be put on what is called a ...