I need to create a T-SQL (I`m using SQL Server 2008 Express) script (procedure/function) that takes entries from a "Tasks" table and generates only the tasks planned to occur in the next 5 hours.
In the "Tasks" table I should have tasks with job like properties :
Occurrence : One time or Recursive
Frequency : every x Days, Weeks, Months
Depending on the Frequency :
For Daily : every x hours,minutes
For Weekly -Days of the week when the task should occur
For Monthly - The first,second,last -day,week day,weekend -
day of week OR The 1st, 2nd, 3rd..31st of the month.
When I run the script I should get only the tasks that will occur in the next 5 hours or less in the case if task occurs every x minutes.
So what this script should actually do is use all the options from a SQL Server Job for a task.
Example1: I create a task "Check email" that occurs every day, between 14:00 and 15:00 . When i run the script at 09:00 I would get Task:"Check email" Time:5 hours left until task, because it occurs every day, i should be able to get this result every day when I roll the script ,only if that 5 hours or less range .
Example2: A task "Send hours report" that occurs Monthly, on the 1st week day (not weekend), at 01:00 PM . Running the script on the first week day of the month at 08:00 AM I should get Task:"Send hours report" Time:5 hours until task
I know it's a quite big request but hopefully someone will find it easy what for me seems pretty hard.
You should also store somewhere the date/time of the last execution of each job (at least for jobs that are configured for every x hours/minutes). The idea is to calculate the next execution date/time for each job, and return it if it's less than 5 hours away. If the job is configured for every x hours/minutes, use DATEADD and check if the result is within the configured timeframe. If the job is configured for daily (at a specified time), just check if the specified time is less than 5 hours away (but still in the future). I have done a similar feature and it's not an easy thing to check for all cases (it took me a few days of coding).
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I’m a data analyst in the insurance industry and we currently have a program in SAS EG that tracks catastrophe development week by week since the start of the event for all of the catastrophic events that are reported.
(I.E week 1 is catastrophe start date + 7 days, week 2 would be end of week 1 + 7 days and so on) then all transaction amounts (dollars) for the specific catastrophes would be grouped into the respective weeks based on the date each transaction was made.
Problem that we’re faced with is we are moving away from SAS EG to GCP big query and the current process of calculating those weeks is a manually read in list which isn’t very efficient and not easily translated to BigQuery.
Curious if anybody has an idea that would allow me to calculate each week number in periods of 7 days since the start of an event in SQL or has an idea specific for BigQuery? There would be different start dates for each event.
It is complex, I know and I’m willing to give more explanation as needed. Open to any ideas for this as I haven’t been able to find anything.
I have been following Stackoverflow for years but posting for the first time. I am trying to dynamically schedule a script in Toad but there doesn't seem to be an option for it. For example, I want to automatically trigger a script on lets say 2nd Feb, 2020. Then it should run after 4 weeks on 1st March 2020. Then after 5 weeks on 5th April, 2020. Then after 4 weeks on 3rd May, 2020 and so on. Is there a way of achieving this in Toad automation?
TIA
I use TOAD as a GUI to access Oracle database(s). I don't know which database you use. Nonetheless, from my point of view, you should schedule a database job.
In Oracle, you'd use DBMS_JOB or DBMS_SCHEDULER. The latter is capable of running even an operating system script (if that's a "script" you are talking about). Otherwise, usually we schedule a stored procedure (which resides in the database).
If, on the other hand, you'd want to run that "script" on the operating system level only, then check your operating system scheduling capabilities. On MS Windows, that would be the Task Scheduler; on UNIX, it is cron.
As intervals you'd want to run that script isn't straightforward (e.g. "on 2nd of every month" or "every 5 weeks" and similar) but "today, 4 weeks later, 5 weeks later, 4 weeks later, 5 weeks later, ...", you'll probably have to develop some logic to do so. For example, create a calendar table and mark days on which you want to run that script, schedule it to run daily but check whether today's data equals the one which is marked. Or, create two jobs: one that starts "today" and runs every 10 weeks, and the one that starts "today + 4 weeks" and runs every 10 weeks.
I need a job to run on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month. I know I can set up a job to run every two weeks but that logic doesn't work when a month eventually hits a five week span. Is it possible to set this up using the SQL Server Agent Schedule? If not, does anyone recommend another method?
Create two schedules on the job, one that runs on the second Thursday, and one that runs on the fourth.
Under the Frequency heading on the Scheduler, change the Occurs drop down to Monthly to get to the options you need.
I have an APScheduler job that creates a report our client has requested for the first and third Mondays of the month.
To deliver that in time, I want to run the job the day before the first and third Monday, which can't be specified directly in APScheduler.
I noticed another user had this question as well, describing the request as impossible, in the comments of Running APScheduler Job Every nth Day of Month
Here's how I solved it:
scheduler.add_job(func, 'cron', 'day_of_week'='sun', 'day'='last,1-6,14-20')
By specifying the day of the week, and then specifying the days in the month that could apply, it will fire the day before the first and third Mondays. It only fires when all the conditions are met, so the other dates (which won't be Sunday) don't fire.
How do I run a job in Sql Server Agent in (SQL Server Management Studio) for 'x' number of days in a month?
eg: Every 1st.2nd and 3rd of every month
The problem is I am not sure of these days! The user will specify the 'x' number of days!
For instance, the user feels for the month of April he wants the job to be scheduled on 'x' days. Here x= 1st,2nd and 4th of April.
And for the month May he feels to schedule on 'x' days. Here x= 7th,8th and 10th!
Is it possible to schedule in such a way?
Is there any script to schedule this???
Make a schedule that's run on those three days. Assign this job to that schedule.
(To elaborate and make it perfectly clear).
Make three schedules (Rightclick Jobs, Manage Schedules).In new schedules choose - Recurring on monthly. One starts the 1st, one starts the 2nd, one starts the 3rd of every month (for example, or x times for whatever day of month you wish).
Name these schedules something that's easy for you to spot in a list.
On the job you wish to run on these days, properties on it, schedule, then pick the schedule(s) you want to assign to the given job.
That should be all.
If the schedule is user defined then I'd probably just schedule the job to run every day and have the first step be to check whether it should be running today and if not exit.
Check Howto Schedule a Job and follow the Instructions of cairnz.