This article provides an overview of the SQL Server Agent, which is a Microsoft Windows service that executes scheduled administrative tasks (called jobs) in SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Using SQL Server Agent in AzureSQL Managed Instance, you can create and schedule jobs that could be periodically executed against one or many databases. These SQL Agent jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) ...

The importance of automating processes can’t be overestimated. Most things start out as a manual procedure until you work out exactly how things should happen, but many times they stay that way ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...