Move jobs from 2000 to 2005

  • Hi everyone,

    Based on your experience, what's the best way to move the jobs from SQL 2K to 2005? Thanks in advance.

  • use SSIS

    just make sure the db's are on the new server along with operators, etc

  • Thanks for your response.

    Once I move to 2005, I won't have access to the 2000 databases. Is there a way to save the jobs and import them to 2005 later?

  • Backup msdb and restore it on a developpement server (that will remain online).

  • When we went from 2000 to 2005 we created scripts of the jobs and ran the scripts to re-create the jobs on the new 2005 server. If you create scripts and save them in Source Safe or something then you'll have a copy of the code without needing access to the old server. If you have hundreds of jobs this may be unweildy. We only had about 10 jobs.

  • Thank you, I'll create scripts since we only have about a dozen jobs.

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