SQL agent job disabled

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SQL agent job disabled

sqlfriend

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June 8, 2017 at 12:16 pm

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If a job in SQL agent job list disabled, but the schedule is enabled, will it still run?
I thought after I disabled the job, the job will not run even in the schedule screen the enabled check box is checked..
But I see in job activity Monitor it still show the job failed. and next run will be tomorrow.
Thanks

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Sue_H SSC Guru Points: 90860 More actions · Answer 1

sqlfriends - Thursday, June 8, 2017 12:16 PM
If a job in SQL agent job list disabled, but the schedule is enabled, will it still run?
I thought after I disabled the job, the job will not run even in the schedule screen the enabled check box is checked..
But I see in job activity Monitor it still show the job failed. and next run will be tomorrow.
Thanks

No it won't run.
Job activity monitor will show the next run date and time based on the schedule associated with the job but it doesn't mean it will run at that time. If you were to enable the job it would run at that time.

Sue

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 736494 More actions · Answer 2

Schedules are separate objects attached to the job. They need to be enabled to be used, but they are separate from the job.

Job Schedules: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/agent/create-and-attach-schedules-to-jobs

MadAdmin SSChampion Points: 11261 More actions · Answer 3

This should be quicker to test than to post?

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sqlfriend SSC Guru Points: 52781 More actions · Answer 4

Thanks, I know either of job or schedule is disabled, the job will not run.

The reason I asked is we have solarwinds monitoring the server, the job ran 2 months ago and failed, then we disabled the job for it does not need to run at this time.
But solwinds still show a failure in SQL agent job in red flag even the job failed 2 months ago, I would like to clear that out so that we don' t need to check at this time.

Thanks

MadAdmin SSChampion Points: 11261 More actions · Answer 5

IF you dont care about job history for this job that has been disabled
THEN
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-purge-jobhistory-transact-sql
sp_purge_jobhistory { [ @job_name = ] 'job_name' | | [ @job_id = ] job_id } [ , [ @oldest_date = ] oldest_date ]

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sqlfriend SSC Guru Points: 52781 More actions · Answer 6

Thank you, the job history for those failed job had already deleted.

What I found is:
Yesterday, I disabled the schedule ( plus previously disabled job), then solarwinds no longer pull that failed job.
If I only disable job but not disable schedule, they will still show failed jobs.

So it is fine now.

Thanks all.