What do I do with my PowerShell script that I use to back up the SQL Server Agent jobs? I quickly found out (years ago) that RDS does not support a lot of my "borrowed" code, especially code that ...

Schedule SSAS Administrative Tasks with SQL Server Agent [!INCLUDE appliesto-sqlas] Using the SQL Server Agent service, you can schedule [!INCLUDE ssASnoversion] administrative tasks to run in the ...

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

Automating things for SQL Server DBAs in a traditional on-premises world was easy: You simply used the SQL Server Agent, a service that provides scheduling, notifications and job handling.

Run DBCC CHECKDB regularly to ensure database integrity. Set up a swift alert using SQL Server Agent to notify you of potential SQL database corruption before it's too late to rectify.

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).