I created this SP for use with our morning DW builds. I use it to manage the execution of multiple jobs. It first starts up to a configureable number of jobs, monitors these jobs until one (or more) complete, and then starts additional jobs as needed. If any jobs fail, it will run the "transaction […]
2002-01-06
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I'm posting this job script because it gets used by my scheduler script. It simply enumerates through each database on the server, and then executes a DBCC SHRINKDATABASE. The only wrinkle here is that I have it do a quick check to make sure that certain jobs are not already running.
2002-01-04
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I've included this job script, because it is used by the scheduler scripts that I've also posted. This job is a little more involved than most may need... It first checks to see if certain jobs are running. Is so, it waits for a while, and then checks again. After that it drops the existing […]
2002-01-04
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I created this script in an attempt to better automate many different jobs that run each morning, as part of a datawarehouse build. I use it to not only tell me what jobs are currently running (so that I can manage how many I would like to run at a time), but what happened to […]
2002-01-03
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