I was trying the mssql-docker image for windows and everything seems to work fine but the SQL Server Agent doesn't start at all. It is always in Agent XPs disabled mode. I have tried: Enabling the ...

Scheduling with the SQL Server Agent. A few practical examples on setting up policies. This time, we PowerShell it. By Joshua Jones; 12/07/2009; It is possible to use the SQL Server Agent to ...

Learn how to use the SQL Server Agent service to schedule Analysis Services administrative tasks to run in the order and times that you need. [!INCLUDEappliesto-sqlas] Using the SQL Server Agent ...

Microsoft is excited to announce a new preview for the next version of SQL Server (SQL Server v.Next). Community Technology Preview (CTP) 1.4 is available on both Windows and Linux. In this preview, ...

SQL Server Agent is a powerful tool that allows you to automate various tasks on your SQL Server instance, such as backups, maintenance, and alerts.

It is also worth mentioning the other two SQL Agent roles available in SQL Server 2005. The SQLAgentUserRole allows users to create jobs and to manage the jobs that they create.

SQL guru Brent Ozar observed in a blog post: "We were all pretty surprised that Agent would break when it wasn't even supposedly changed in this CU", along with a picture of himself holding the retail ...