SQL Agent in Level 5 of the Stairway of SQL Server on Linux

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SQL Agent in Level 5 of the Stairway of SQL Server on Linux

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August 6, 2019 at 12:00 am

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S.W.Goetz.37 SSC Veteran Points: 243 More actions · Answer 1

This may be a dumb question - but is there a good way to say, clear out backup files older than "x" days via the SQL Agent for these backup jobs? I know you could do a cron job to automate this, but I was hoping there was such a thing that would allow the agent to take care of this just to keep all of the backup routine in one place.

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736478 More actions · Answer 2

You have to write the logic in the Agent job to do this, and likely set this to be a shell type of job. T-SQL jobs can't see the filesystem.