How to automate the running of a script task, so that it runs hourly?

  • Problem/Background:

    Source database has a table that contains snapshot information about the statuses of a bunch of machines. When statuses change rows are updated with new statuses. Old statuses are lost.

    There's a business need in my group to capture the status of these machines on a regular basis (The sampling rate is unknown to me, but it may be hourly, or daily.) and write that info to a table on another database so that we can begin trending.

    I know SSIS has a script task I can use to get the result set I need and I'm comfortable configuring the connections to both source and destination servers/databases/tables. What I don't know how to do is automate SSIS to run the script task each hour.

    Will you please give me some pointer what to google to find help on automating the hourly running of an SSIS script task? Perhaps there is a better control task to use?

    Thanks.

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  • You're looking to use SQL Agent as the scheduler. Just use the following article to decide which way you want to schedule the job:

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms141701.aspx

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  • Thank you Matt!

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