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Creating Jobs and Tasks Using Management Studio
SQL Server Management Studio makes it very easy to create scheduled jobs. Just navigate to the SQL
Server Agent node of your server. Then right-click the Jobs member and select New Job. You should get
a multimode dialog box, shown in Figure 19-3, that will help you build the job one step at a time:
Figure 19-3
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The name can be whatever you like as long as it adheres to the SQL Server rules for naming as discussed
early in the book.
Most of the rest of the information is, again, self-explanatory with the exception of Category, which is just
one way of grouping jobs. Many of your jobs that are specific to your application are going to be Uncategorized,
although you will probably on occasion run into instances where you want to create Web Assistant,
Database Maintenance, Full Text, or Replication jobs; those each go into their own category for easy
identification.
We can then move on to Steps, as shown in Figure 19-4. This is the place where we tell SQL Server to
start creating our new tasks that will be part of this job.
To add a new step to our job, we just click the New button and fill in the new dialog box, shown in
Figure 19-5. We’ll use a T-SQL statement to raise a bogus error just so we can see that things are really
happening when we schedule this job. Note, however, that there is an Open button to the left of the command
box; you can use this to import SQL scripts that you have saved in files.
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