Find SQL Server Agent Jobs that Start Other Jobs

A SQL Server Agent job can start other jobs. Writing jobs this way makes it easy to compartmentalize jobs: start a “child” job only when the “parent” reaches a certain step. Finding these steps can be challenging. There is no field or property in sysjobs or its associated tables to help find child jobs.

How to Restore an Agent Job that was Dropped

Once upon a time, you had one job, well actually two jobs. The first SQL Server agent job was important, the other was a test. You have decided you do not need the test agent job. Quick right-click on a job name, remove, confirm, done. When you refreshed the list, the test job was still […]

How to Restore an Agent Job that was Dropped

Once upon a time, you had one job, well actually two jobs. The first SQL Server agent job was important, the other was a test. You have decided you do not need the test agent job. Quick right-click on a job name, remove, confirm, done. When you refreshed the list, the test job was still […]

Disabled Schedules

The Disabled Job Schedule

CPU Spikes Caused by Periodic Scheduled Jobs

This article shows how to reduce the periodic spikes in the CPU that are caused by the periodic-executing jobs. There is a good reason to make some changes for dismissing them.

Job Step Log Output file path

If you have a requirement to carefully have the output file against each sql agent job step, you can use this script. If incase, there are many sql agent jobs and by any reason if any of the step does not have proper o/p file, this script can automatically create the o/p file.

Add empty first step for every job

This script adds empty first step for every job for easier job history viewing.

Visualize the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and email

Generate an HTML page with the timeline of your SQL jobs using Google graph and sp_send_dbmail

Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step

Query to find the Job Output file location at each job step.
This helps if you want to find out the location of each output file of jobs to find out whether those are going to the right location.