Say I have a job in SQL Server with 8 steps.
If I run a script to delete an intermediate job step, like such:
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_jobstep #job_id=N'xxxxxxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxx', #step_id=5
What happens? Will the job run as scheduled, and just skip from step 4 to step 6? Will the job break?
Every Step in Steps tab have two property :
On success action
On failure action
check these, there is no problem with deleting steps if you handle that.
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I have a SQL Agent job that runs on the 7th of each month on an hourly basis. I want to stop it from running further once it is successful.
For example, if the job is successful at 8:00 A.M, I dont want it to run any more untill the 7th of next month. Any scripts would be helpful for this.
I am working on trying to establish this rule through the use of MSDB sys.jobs and an idea that I have is to update the Enabled flag to a 0 once the run is complete. Once the 7th of next month hits, another job on the SQL Agent could go in an update the flag back to a 1 so it can be run. i
I suggest you create a new first job-step and, using the answer provided in the question sql-agent-job-last-run-status, you can check if the last execution succeeded.
You can then cancel the job from executing by using exec msdb.dbo.sp_stop_job
I use this method in an Availability group cluster (to check if SQL Agent is running on the primary for jobs the require it) and abort the job if not. It works well.
How about, create a table with a row for last successful run, populate it on a successful run.
Then first thing in the job, check that table, and if the last successful run is since the 7th, terminate.
Otherwise run the rest of the job.
The solution that I finally deployed was to add a step to the job that would disable it once all preceding steps succeeded. I added another job to the Agent that would go and enable this job on the 1st of each month so that they are ready to be executed. Just throwing this out so that someone else can benefit.
I have a Job name ' TEST' which is having 3 steps.
There is a requirement to run only the Step 2, But when I right click on job name and click on start job at step and start the job from step 2 it runs the step 3 as well.
Even when I run the job like
EXEC msdb..sp_start_job #job_name = 'Test', #step_name='2'
It still run the step 3 which I don't want.
Is there a way in this scenario. I dont want to add step-2 in a seperate job and run it seperately.
Starting a job at a specific step bypasses the previous ones, not the subsequent. Also, to my knowledge, you may not bypass the next ones in any way, or disable a step.
For a temporary solution, I'd recommend moving your desired step (2) to the end, and then execute starting at it.
You can't bypass the next step. You will need to either move down the step or create a separate SQL job to run the given step.
Another possibility is to edit the step's "on success action".
First, open the Job Properties, select the relevant step, and select "Edit":
Next, go to the "Advanced" tab and change "On success action" from "Go to the next step" to "Quit the job reporting success".
There is job which first generates the data in initial steps and in later steps it then copies the data to 4 different servers. Since I wanted the parallel execution I created another job which handles copying the data to 2 servers and originally existing job copies data to 2 servers. I want some mechanism to trigger the new job after the initial steps of generation of data of exiting job runs successfully. Any help would be appreciated!
You can add the below command wherever you want to start the other job execution:
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job 'other_job_name'
exec msdb.dbo.sp_start_job #job_name = 'job_name';
I am running a Select query and getting lots of rows from it(sometimes more than 500) then inserting thoes values one by one into another table. Now i want to know which insert step failed so that i can start inserting from that failed step again so that table does not update with duplicate value.
Syntax may vary from system to system, however structure and process remains.
When one does database deployments to live system he prepares two SQL scripts.
1.Change script that has structure like this:
PRINT 'Doing X'
SCRIPT X
....
GO
PRINT 'DOING Y'
SCRIPT Y
....
GO
2.Rollback script that reverts all the changes that section of script does.
Revert scripts are executed in reverse order.
REVERT SCRIPT Y
REVERT SCRIPT X
When change script fails you will know which section failed by the last message printed out, then you will take all sections of rollback script that run after the failed section and revert changes.
I have a SQL Server Agent Job that previously had two steps. Today, I've had to integrate the third step, and soon I'll need to integrate a fourth.
I want to be sure that the step will execute properly but I do not want to execute the entire job.
The first two steps take quite a bit of time to execute and during the day they hog a significant amount of the SQL resources that my users need.
Is there a way that I can execute a job step and not an entire job process?
Within SSMS, if I right-click on the job there is an option that states "Start Job at step..." except when I try that option it brings up a dialog that seems to imply that the entire job has been started. What can I do to test one step within a job?
Thanks in advance.
"Start job at step" will start the job at the step you specify. However - if you don't wish to execute any subsequent steps - be sure to adjust the step logic so that it will "Quit reporting success" after completing the step you started at.
In SSMS:
Copy the code from the job step (use ctrl + a to select all)
Paste the code in to a new query window in SSMS
Run the code
Alternately if you have a recurring need to run just a couple steps.
Put those steps in a separate job, then kick off one job from the other to run everything. Use EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job N'job_name'
You can run the short easy job on demand, and the full long job as scheduled
Use this:
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job N'job_name' , 'step_name'
Go to job properties and manually do that step. For example, there is a job with 16 steps and you want to run the 12th step, then go to that job property and see what that step 12 exactly does. If it executes a batch file in command prompt, do that manually. But this logic cannot be used in all cases.
USE [**DB_NAME**]
GO
DECLARE #return_value int
EXEC #return_value = [dbo].[**STEP_NAME**]
SELECT 'Return Value' = #return_value
GO