In SQL Management Studio, you can right click on an Agent Job and choose 'Script Job as' -> 'Create to/Drop to', which will reveal the backend code for the agent job.
Is there a script I can execute which would generate this code as well?
I've been searching for details on this, but all I can find so far is references for viewing the script via SQL Management Studio (Example 1, Example 2, Example 3).
If anyone could point me in the proper direction containing ANY details on how to query for a creation script, that would be awesome.
Running a Profiler Trace while running the 'Script Job as' -> 'Create to' reveals a set of SQL statements that you could mimic:
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I have a linked database in MS SQL Server management Studio. I can query it and get the exact data I need in the format I need with headers and all.
I need a way to automate this query on a schedule and export as a csv automatically.
Currently my process is to open the query in MS SQL SMS, and run the query (which mind you takes 15 minutes to run) and then in the results area right click and "save results as"
I would like to either automate it with in SMS, or be able to script it. What's confusing to me is how to write a script for a linked database.
I noticed that when you right click on the Linked Server there are a couple of options to script. For example, there's "Create To", "DROP To", and "DROP And CREATE To". Each of the scripts seem to be formated in a similar way with the following:
USE [master]
GO
/****** Object: LinkedServer [QREMOTE] Script Date: 2/24/2022 10:59:26 AM ******/
EXEC master.dbo.sp_dropserver #server=N'QREMOTE', #droplogins='droplogins'
GO
I'm not familiar with this scripting and I'm not sure how to use it. Any assistance would be appreciated!
Some background, this is a quickbooks database connected through the QODBC driver in which I'm using SMS to query specific fields from a table that need to be exported in a specific order so they can be imported into another system.
I have a SQL Server database set up that I manage using SQL Server Management Studio 17.
In that database, I have 27 tables that I maintain by running pretty simple OPENQUERY scripts every morning, something to the effect of:
DROP TABLE IF EXISTS [databasename].[dbo].[table27]
SELECT * INTO [databasename].[dbo].[table27] FROM OPENQUERY(OracleInstance, '
SELECT
table27.*
FROM
table27
INNER JOIN table26 ON table27.criteria = table26.criteria
WHERE
< filter >
< filter >
');
And this works great! But, it is cumbersome to every morning, sign into SSMS, and right click on my database and hit "New Query" and copy in 27 individual SQL scripts and run them. I am looking for a way to automate that. My directory that holds these scripts looks like this:
I don't know if this is achievable in SSMS or in like a batch script. I would imagine for the latter, some pseudocode looking like:
connect to sql server instance
given instance:
for each sql_script in directory:
sql_script.execute
I have tried creating a script in SSMS, by following:
Tasks -> Script Database ->
But there is no option to execute a .sql file on the tables in question.
I have tried looking at the following resources on using T-SQL to schedule nightly jobs, but have not had any luck conceiving of how to do so:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/ssms/agent/schedule-a-job?view=sql-server-2017
Scheduled run of stored procedure on SQL server
The expected result would be the ability to automatically run the 27 sql queries in the directory above to update the tables in SQL Server, once a day, preferably at 6:00 AM EST. My primary issue is that I cannot access anything but SQL Server Management Studio; I can't access the configuration manager to use things like SQL Server Agent. So if I am scheduling a task, I need to do so through SSMS.
You actually can't access the SQL Server Agent via Object Explorer?
This is located below "Integration Services Catalog"
See highlighted below:
You describe not being able to access that in the question for some reason. If you can't access that then something is wrong with SQL Server or perhaps you don't have admin rights to do things like schedule jobs (a guess there).
In SSMS you would wnat to use Execute T-SQL Statement Task and write your delete statement in the SQL Statement field in the General Tab.
However, I would look at sqlcmd. Simply make a batch script and schedule it in Task Scheduler (if you're using windows). Or you could use
for %%G in (*.sql) do sqlcmd /S servername /d databaseName -E -i"%%G"
pause
From this post. Run all SQL files in a directory
So basically you have to create a Powershell script that calls and execute the sql scripts.
After that you can add your Powrshell script to the Task Scheduler.
I suggest you add these scripts as jobs for the SQL Server Agent.
I'm trying to migrate one of my database in my local environment to Azure from SQL server management studio, but i'm facing with the following exception.
Please let me know how to resolve this issue. Thanks
Steps I have followed:
From SQL Server Management Studio, Database -> Tasks --> Deploy database to Windows Azure SQL Database
I'm able to connect to the Azure SQL instance
During the process i'm getting the following error, as in the snapshot.
PFB the snapshot of my local and azure SQL server instances,
Right click on the DB you are trying to copy, select "Generate scripts..." to open the "generate and Publish Scripts" wizard.
Click Next or "Choose Objects" from the navigation pane to the left. On the "Choose Objects" step you may want to select the specific tables/sprocs you want to copy, or you can just choose "Script entire database"
On the next page, I recommend selecting the "Save to a New Query Window" option. Then click "Advanced" in the top right corner and scroll to the bottom of the "General" section. The last item in this section is "Type of data to script". You will probably want to change this to "Schema and data" if you want to include the data in your script.
Click Next until it starts to generate the script. When the script is done, it will open a new query window with CREATE / INSERT statements and when you Execute, it will create a copy of your DB. HOWEVER, you will need to update the USE [MyDatabase] statement and you will need to change the "Available Databases" dropdown to the desired Database (i'm talking about the dropdown box above the Object Explorer)
You can use the following methods:
-dacpac
-In Visual Studio -> Tools - SQL Server - SQL Schema comparison & data comparison
Check in the settings windows - use incompatible platforms
You received that error because the version of SSMS you're using is old. Installing the latest version of SSMS will get things working better.
I needed some guidance with a task I have never worked with SQL Server 2012. Your help would be very much appreciated. I have inherited a data model in SQL Server.
Basically, I have 5 SQL scripts:
Script A
Script B
Script C
Script D
Script E
For running successfully script B,it needs access to tables generated by script A to perform calculation. Basically, the scripts are feeding each other. I need to run the scripts in a specific order.
My first idea was "stored procedure". So far, I have in the past only written a stored procedure to execute code from the same script that do not require executing other scripts.
My question is, what are some ideas you propose for automatically executing the above 5 scripts in a specific order? how can I do this? What would you recommend me to think when doing this?
Running the complete list of scripts takes around 10 hours.
You could easily create a new SQL Server Agent Job task like this:
Expand the SQL Server Agent node and right click the Jobs node in
SQL Server Agent and select 'New Job'
In the 'New Job' window enter the name of the job and a description
on the 'General' tab.
Select 'Steps' on the left hand side of the window and click 'New'
at the bottom.
In the 'Steps' window enter a step name and select the database you
want the query to run against.
Paste in the T-SQL command you want to run into the Command window
and click 'OK'.
Click on the 'Schedule' menu on the left of the New Job window and
enter the schedule information (e.g. daily and a time).
Click 'OK' - and that should be it.
Repeat these steps for each scripts in the order you want them to run. And, there you go!
currently im using Sql server 2008 r2 (will soon be upgrading to 2014). I need some help in changing job step properties using script.
I have around 20 jobs with each job having 4 steps.
I'm trying to change the below highlighted option using sql server script. Because manually changing all these options is a difficult task.
Please help me in writing script to remove the output log path, uncheck append to log, check log to table and check append log to table options.
I got the script
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_update_jobstep #job_id=N'5e998659-8539-45d2-bf4f-874375c0a111', #step_id=1 ,
#output_file_name=N'',
#flags=16