I have a job that is supposed to run every 11 AM and 8 PM. About two weeks ago, it started to not respect the schedule. The "fix" that I found was to start the job manually and then the job would restart respecting the schedule for a while but eventually the issue reappears.
The big problem is that there are no error message what so ever. If the job fails, I am supposed to get a notification Email which I do not. In the sql server agent logs and the Job history, there are no errors. In the job history, I can see clearly that the job skipped the schedule since there are no entries. It looks like it did not even start as if the running time had not arrived.
The schedule is set to run everyday and there are no limits on how long it is supposed to run. The sql Agent is set to restart automatically if it stops unexpectedly.
Did anyone get this problem before?
Check the user which is used to run the job. Maybe the user password is expired or the user itself is no longer active.
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SQL Jobs are running from the SQL Agent. At this moment, we don't have the Email Notification configured for failure from the SQL Job.
I am considering to fetch the errors from the log table. Further then to have a stored procedure to generate the error report.
select top 10 * from msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory
How to log the SQL Job failure to the Log Table? What will happen, when a job is scheduled to run for every 5 mins and the error will get updated (or) error will get inserted as new record?
Follow these steps:
Open Properties of job
Go under Steps
Get into the step by pressing Edit button
Navigate under Advanced
Change the on Failure Action to Quit the job reporting failure
Then Check Log To table
I ran into the limitations of the built-in logs, job history, etc., where it doesn't capture when a step fails, but the job itself doesn't.
Based upon this sqlshack article, I built and implemented something very similar which maintains a permanent history of job/step failures, etc., even if you delete a job/step. This solution will even notify when this job fails.
Best of luck!
I have a SQL Agent Job that shows as idle in the Activity Monitor but the time duration keeps increasing.
The job seems to have stopped as I've tried stopping it manually and SQL advises the job isn't running.
SysJobActivity doesn't have a stop_execution_date for the job
The job has 5 steps and the last step didn't complete - the server rebooted during the execution of this step.
Is the job ok to leave in it's current state? The duration will forever keep increasing.
Thanks
Job History
Activity Monitor
Job History - Updated
After the comments and viewing the screenshots I think I know what is going on:
The job duration is reported by what is in the msdb..sysjobhistory
The reboot during the job caused a problem (perhaps the power was killed to the box so it couldn't log properly?) so the job never really failed or finished and not properly recorded into the sysjobhistory.
It's not showing up in sp_who which means it is NOT running
I suspect it's probably OK to leave the job just 'running' forever. But I would suggest clearing that up so some other poor DBA isn't scratching his head. You could:
Manually edit the msdb..sysjobhistory which is scary and I wouldn't.
I bet start and stop the job and now it will report OK
Delete the job and history via the GUI and remake it (script it out first!)
To put it simply. I have a SQL Server maintenance plan scheduled to run every Sunday at 8:02 am. This morning when I checked the jobs it says it was successful but it didn't actually run (yesterday on 5/20) it is still showing the successful message from the previous run on 5/13. The job is enabled and I cant find any errors associated with it in the logs. A bit stumped.
Can someone of you help me, how to make the following service selected in the image get into wait mode after starting the server.
Please let me know if developer trace is required to be posted for resolving this issue.
that particular process is a BATCH process, a process that runs scheduled background tasks (maintained by transaction SM36/SM37). If the process is busy right after starting the server, that means there were scheduled tasks with status released waiting for execution, and as soon as the server was up, it started those tasks.
If you want to make sure the system doesn't immediately start released background tasks, you'll have to set the status back to scheduled (which, thanks to a bit of weird translation, means they won't be executed because they are not released).
if you want to start the server without having a chance to first change the job status in SM37, you would either have to reset the status on database level (likely not officially supported by SAP) or first start the server without any BATCH processes (which would give you a number of great big warning messages upon login) and change the job status before then restarting the server with the BATCH processes. You can set the number of processes for each type in the profile of your instance (parameter rdisp/wp_no_btc).
I have a SSIS package that monitors a folder. This package will run continuously until it's terminated.
I want to schedule this using a SQL Agent job.This SQL Agent job will utilize two steps. It is kind of heart beat job to to make sure the SSIS package runs.
Step - 1 it checks whether the SSIS package is running. if running quit else step 2.
Step - 2 Execute the SSIS job. if OK then report success and quit else report failure and quit.
uses a daily schedule Mon-Fri every 4 hrs.
When I execute the SQL Job, it starts the SSIS package but the job keeps running and the job monitor and history shows it as "inprogress"
I had to close the job to come out of the dialog but in background the SSIS job is still running as expected.
Is this normal behavior ? Do I need to approach this in a different way ?
Appreciate any pointers or help on this.
Once the job has begun, the Start Jobs dialog box has no impact whatsoever on the running of the job itself - it exists solely to provide a monitoring window for you. Closing it will have no effect on the running job.
From other phrases in your question, I gather that you do not expect the job to ever 'finish' - therefore I would expect it to always show as In Progress unless it errors out or is stopped.
"This package will run continuously until it's terminated."
"The job keeps running and the job monitor and history shows it as in progress"