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This script lists the name, running and success status, last executed/currently executing step name, Average and Last duration, next run time and other related information about Jobs.

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2012-10-10 (first published: )

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Custom sp_start_job to delay next task until SQL Agent Job has completed

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The system stored procedure sp_start_job is a very useful T-SQL command that starts a SQL Agent job. The problem with this is that it starts the job and it doesn't wait until the job is finished and sometimes I want to start a job and wait until the job is finished and move on to another job or task that depends on the result of the previous job.

2010-11-29

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