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Jobs Stored

Where are SQL Jobs Stored? – Interview Question of the Week #293

September 13, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Interview Questions and Answers
SQL Jobs, SQL Scripts, SQL Server

Question: Where is SQL Jobs Stored?

Answer: In MSDB Database in dbo.sysjobs table. Let us learn about it in today’s blog post.

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SQL SERVER – List All Active Background Jobs

July 15, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Performance
SQL DMV, SQL Jobs, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, System Object

During Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check, we had an issue where lots of active background jobs consuming lots of important resources. 

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Job Schedules

SQL SERVER – Details About SQL Jobs and Job Schedules

January 31, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Jobs, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, System Database

SQL Expert Dominic Wirth has written a very interesting script about SQL Jobs and Job Schedules. Let us learn about that in this blog post.

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SQL SERVER – Query to List All Jobs with Owners

January 30, 2020
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Jobs, SQL Login, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Server Security

During the engagement suddenly a Jr. DBA asked me if I have a query that will list all the jobs in their system with the Job’s owner.

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SQL SERVER – SQL Agent Job and Backslash – Strange Behavior

July 18, 2019
Pinal Dave
SQL Puzzle
SQL Jobs, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent, SQL Stored Procedure

Today’s blog post is about SQL Agent Job and Backslash. I was surprised to see this behavior. Here are the steps to reproduce this behavior.

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SQL SERVER – T-SQL Script to Check SQL Server Job History

December 22, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL DMV, SQL Jobs, SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Agent

Yesterday my long time customer from New Zealand asked me during our regular weekly meet of Comprehensive Database Performance Health Check if I know a T-SQL Script to Check SQL Server Job History.

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SQL SERVER – Maintenance Plan Error: Failed to Acquire Connection “Local Server Connection”.

May 22, 2018
Pinal Dave
SQL
Computer Network, SQL Connection, SQL Error Messages, SQL Jobs, SQL Server

One of my clients had an interesting situation where none of the SQL Maintenance plans were working. The example what I am using here is a SQL Server backup maintenance plan failing. I also saw a behavior where all the individual jobs were working fine as expected.

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