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Overview

In this lesson, we are going to see how to create and associate SQL Server Jobsin Wayfast.

Jobs play an important role as they allow us to schedule timer triggered processes.

What is a Job in Database?

A Job is a container that allows packaging one or more steps in process that need to be scheduled and executed. In other words, we can say that it is a series of query actions that can be performed in certain periods of time.

We can use jobs to define different tasks that can be run one or more times and monitored for success or failure. A job can run on one local server or on multiple remote servers.

How to create a Job in Wayfast?

Let’s go to “Database” at top menu, click on “Jobs” tab.

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After selecting the “Instance” and “Database” information, add the query to execute as part of the first job step. The last field is checkbox that allows to activate/deactivate steps during the debugging process.

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How to schedule a Job?

Schedules allow to set the date & time or the frequency for the job to run.

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The new scheduler will be reflected in the jobs dashboard

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Recap

In this lesson we learnt how we can create a job, define steps and schedule executions. Jobs are crucial to enable features triggered without user interactions like nightly data migrations, data clean up, or any scheduled task.

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