How to create jobs in SQL Server Express edition

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Could anyone please explain to me how to create jobs in SQL Server Express edition

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SQL Server Express editions are limited in some ways - one way is that they don't have the SQL Agent that allows you to schedule jobs.

There are a few third-party extensions that provide that capability - check out e.g.:

Express Agent for SQL Server Express: Jobs, Jobs, Jobs and Mail (latest update is from 2005, it isn't maintained anymore).
SQL Scheduler

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SQL Server Express doesn t include SQL Server Agent  so it s not possible to just create SQL Agent jobs  What you can do is  You can create jobs  quot manually quot  by creating batch files and SQL script files  and running them via Windows Task Scheduler  For example  you can backup your database with two files like this  backup bat  sqlcmd -i backup sql  backup sql  backup database TeamCity to disk    c  backups MyBackup bak   Just put both files into the same folder and exeute the batch file via Windows Task Scheduler  The first file is just a Windows batch file which calls the sqlcmd utility and passes a SQL script file  The SQL script file contains T-SQL  In my example  it s just one line to backup a database  but you can put any T-SQL inside  For example  you could do some UPDATE queries instead   If the jobs you want to create are for backups  index maintenance or integrity checks  you could also use the excellent Maintenance Solution by Ola Hallengren  It consists of a bunch of stored procedures  and SQL Agent jobs for non-Express editions of SQL Server   and in the FAQ there   s a section about how  to run the jobs on SQL Server Express   How do I get started with the SQL Server Maintenance Solution on SQL Server Express  SQL Server Express has no SQL Server Agent  Therefore  the execution of the stored procedures must be scheduled by using cmd files and Windows Scheduled Tasks  Follow these steps  SQL Server Express has no SQL Server Agent  Therefore  the execution of the stored procedures must be scheduled by using cmd files and Windows Scheduled Tasks  Follow these steps   Download MaintenanceSolution sql   Execute MaintenanceSolution sql  This script creates the stored procedures that you need   Create cmd files to execute the stored procedures  for example  sqlcmd -E -S   SQLEXPRESS -d master -Q  quot EXECUTE dbo DatabaseBackup  Databases    USER DATABASES    Directory   N C  Backup    BackupType    FULL  quot  -b -o C  Log DatabaseBackup txt  In Windows Scheduled Tasks  create tasks to call the cmd files   Schedule the tasks   Start the tasks and verify that they are completing successfully

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The functionality of creating SQL Agent Jobs is not available in SQL Server Express Edition  An alternative is to execute a batch file that executes a SQL script using Windows Task Scheduler   In order to do this first create a batch file named sqljob bat  sqlcmd -S servername -U username -P password -i  lt path of sqljob sql gt    Replace the servername  username  password and path with yours   Then create the SQL Script file named sqljob sql  USE  databasename  --T-SQL commands go here GO   Replace the  databasename  with your database name  The USE and GO is necessary when you write the SQL script   sqlcmd is a command-line utility to execute SQL scripts  After creating these two files execute the batch file using Windows Task Scheduler    NB  An almost same answer was posted for this question before  But I felt it was incomplete as it didn t specify about login information using sqlcmd

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