Scheduler in MS SQL Server

  • Hi Friends,

    this is second time I'm here. I would like to know is there scheduler services or anything similar in SQL Server 2005?

    I need to track the table status after regular time interval. I'm not sure whether trigger can do so because this activity is irrespective of table updates.

    Thanks,

    Vicky

  • Look in books on line for information about creating jobs. You can define a job and schedule it to run whenever you want.

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  • The jobs are created in the SQL Server Agent. It's a seperate service that runs along side SQL Server (assuming you're not running Express). It allows for scheduling to run backups, maintenance, t-sql commands like what you want.

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  • I don't need Scheduled Jobs on server, rather I need similar functionality but at database level.

    I need to check the row count of a table after every 3 hours. Is there something like this?

    -Vicky

  • It sure sounds like that's what you need. Yes, it's running on the server, but so is your database. You just point the scheduler at the DB you want and run it.

    There is no database only scheduling process. If you need something run on a timed basis, Agent, or some third party scheduling tool, is the way to go.

    If there's a status concern, rather than checking for the status, why not put a trigger in place that does something when the status changes? That would seem to work better than polling over & over. Then it would be internal to the database and wouldn't require scheduling.

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    - Theodore Roosevelt

    Author of:
    SQL Server Execution Plans
    SQL Server Query Performance Tuning

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