Copy all jobs, job steps and job schedules

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This vbscript will generate the sql to recreate all the jobs running on a given SQL server. I wrote this because the last time we migrated a SQL server, I ended up re-creating all the jobs, steps and schedules by hand using the Enterprise Manager. It was the slowest, dullest and most error-prone part of the migration. Being a lazy programmer (aren't all good programmers lazy?) and being in love with scripting languages (especially Perl and VBScript) I thought I would throw a quick little script together to do the job.

So, set up a udl and capture the output to a text file. Paste the sql statements into the query analyzer and voila!

You could easily use a connection object to execute the sql as it ran, or save it to a file and then call osql through a command shell, but I chose not to do that since our migration will be stressful enough without worrying that something went wrong with the script. I'd rather see the SQL and paste it into the query analyzer prior to executing the SQL.

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