• Jeff Moden (10/28/2012)


    This can be done pretty easily. Create an SQL Server job to run the proc and have the app kick the job off.

    Saying I have a SQL job that executes a stored procedure as follow. Could you give an example (VB or C#) code to execute this job. Provided procedure DoSomeCleanupTasks takes 2 parameters (A Int, B DateTime)

    Thank You!

    USE [msdb]

    GO

    BEGIN TRANSACTION

    DECLARE @ReturnCode INT

    SELECT @ReturnCode = 0

    IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name FROM msdb.dbo.syscategories WHERE name=N'Database Maintenance' AND category_class=1)

    BEGIN

    EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_category @class=N'JOB', @type=N'LOCAL', @name=N'Database Maintenance'

    IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

    END

    DECLARE @jobId BINARY(16)

    EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_job @job_name=N'DoSomeCleanupTasks',

    @enabled=1,

    @notify_level_eventlog=0,

    @notify_level_email=0,

    @notify_level_netsend=0,

    @notify_level_page=0,

    @delete_level=0,

    @description=N'No description available.',

    @category_name=N'Database Maintenance',

    @owner_login_name=N'sa', @job_id = @jobId OUTPUT

    IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

    EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep @job_id=@jobId, @step_name=N'Refresh Parent Last Modified Date',

    @step_id=1,

    @cmdexec_success_code=0,

    @on_success_action=1,

    @on_success_step_id=0,

    @on_fail_action=2,

    @on_fail_step_id=0,

    @retry_attempts=0,

    @retry_interval=0,

    @os_run_priority=0, @subsystem=N'TSQL',

    @command=N'Exec dbo.DoSomeCleanupTasks',

    @database_name=N'MyDataBase',

    @flags=0

    IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

    EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_update_job @job_id = @jobId, @start_step_id = 1

    IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

    EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver @job_id = @jobId, @server_name = N'(local)'

    IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

    COMMIT TRANSACTION

    GOTO EndSave

    QuitWithRollback:

    IF (@@TRANCOUNT > 0) ROLLBACK TRANSACTION

    EndSave:

    GO