Yes, this is a cross post as the previous one was posted in forum of SQL Server 2000 and older versions which the editor Steve Jones mentioned. So I requested...

I posted the topic under Home>Forums>SQL Server 2014>Administration – SQL Server 2014>SQL Server Agent scheduled job taking too long time to run in SQL Server 2014

as this is an old...

Hi SSC Guru,

It is SQL Server 2014 Standard Edition. What more information I may provide to get some understanding on the cause of the problem?

Yea, I saw almost similar posting...