Weird SQL Job schedule behavior

  • We have a job that runs daily that today exhibited some strange behavior. Usually the job runs at 7:00 a.m. Because a database it depends on doesn't finish restoring until after that, one of my coworkers rescheduled the job to run at 8:30 a.m. He changed the schedule to pick up starting tomorrow (3/2/2015), but for some reason, no matter how we refreshed the job activity monitor, the job kept showing that it was going to run today at 8:30.

    Can someone shed some light on why SQL Server is behaving this way?

    I have some thoughts, but I'd like to see what other people say before I voice them. Pictures are attached.

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  • It's the year. The schedule was set to start on 3/2/2012 and since it was back dated to start then, the next run on 3/1/2015 would start at 8:30.

  • Brandie Tarvin (3/1/2015)


    He changed the schedule to pick up starting tomorrow (3/2/2015)

    Starting three years ago tomorrow, you mean? 🙂

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  • GilaMonster (3/3/2015)


    Brandie Tarvin (3/1/2015)


    He changed the schedule to pick up starting tomorrow (3/2/2015)

    Starting three years ago tomorrow, you mean? 🙂

    DOH. I didn't even see 2012. I looked at that thing 3 times and saw 2015 each time.

    BLEARGH. Just goes to show that have of what we see depends on what we expect to see. Thanks.

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