See Azure SQL Managed Instance T-SQL differences from SQL Server for details. This topic describes how to create and define a [!INCLUDE ssNoVersion] Agent job step that executes a PowerShell script in ...

SQL Server Agent uses SQL Server to store job information. Jobs contain one or more job steps. Each step contains its own task, for example, backing up a database. SQL Server Agent can run a job on a ...

Powershell can schedule it for you! Just script something against the SQL Server Agent to get automated now.

This post was authored by Tara Raj and Vinson Yu, Program Managers – SQL Server Team We are excited to announce the public preview availability of two new command line tools for SQL Server: The ...

In keeping with our goal to enable SQL Server features across all platforms supported by SQL Server, Microsoft is excited to announce the preview of SQL Server Agent on Linux in SQL Server vNext ...

Understanding SQL Server Agent SQL Server Agent is a popular tool from Microsoft for scheduling programs to run on Microsoft's SQL Server database platform.

SQL Server 2005's Management Studio offers lots of new functionality, but you can't always use a GUI. Sometimes you need to run a script from the command line, especially for an upgrade or install ...

I'm trying to start/stop MS SQL Service on various DB servers (locally) but we don't always know the name of the instance (Always only 1 SQL Server running on a single server).