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Chapter 19: Playing Administrator
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Okay, so there’s little chance that our RAISERROR statement is going to fail, so we’ll just take the default
of Quit the job reporting failure on this one. (We’ll see other possibilities later in the chapter when we
come to backups.)
That moves us back to the main New Job dialog box, and we’re now ready to move on to the Schedules
node, shown in Figure 19-7.
Figure 19-7
In this dialog box, we can manage one or more scheduled times for this job to run. To actually create a
new scheduled time for the job to run, we need to click the New button. That brings up yet another dialog
box, shown in Figure 19-8.
I’ve largely filled this one out already (lest you get buried in a sea of screenshots), but it is from this dialog
box that we create a new schedule for this job. Recurrence and frequency are set here.
The frequency side of things can be a bit confusing because of the funny way that they’ve worded things.
If you want something to run at multiple times every day, then you need to set the job to Occur Daily
every 1 day. This seems like it would run only once a day, but then you also have the option of setting
whether it runs once or at an interval. In our case, we want to set our job to run every 5 minutes.
Now we’re ready to move on to the next node of our job properties: alerts, shown in Figure 19-9.