Centralized mechanism for managing/executing sql jobs

  • I would like to know what other DBA's use tool for managing all sql jobs in one place.Below are my requirements:

    i) Tool should have capability to execute jobs only on certain servers, kinda like have enable/disable type of flag.

    a) Good to have the capability of running the same code inside the job across multiple database in parallel ( powershell?)

    ii) Should give good error logging per server.

    iii) Dashboard for all the jobs.

    Please let me know which tools you have been using for this. Thanks in advance.

  • curious_sqldba (1/6/2014)


    Please let me know which tools you have been using for this. Thanks in advance.

    SQL Agent. Doesn't do everything that you're looking for but we have a centralized server for all dataload jobs and each server only does local maintenance as its personal jobs (reindexing, etc). It's what I've used... well... everywhere though.


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  • Yeah, pretty much SQL Agent. You can set up multi-server management with it too. I wrote an article on this topic a little while back that might be a little helpful[/url].

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  • Grant beat me to it! Follow that article and you can't go wrong. I followed his advice in a previous role and it simplified management of many servers. 😀

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