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    Aleksandar commented  · 

    AFAIK, maintenance plans just create Agent Jobs. Merging this request with the linked one might make sense
    http://redgate.uservoice.com/forums/39019-sql-source-control/suggestions/471713-agent-jobs?ref=comments#comments

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    under review  ·  Kendra responded

    Thank you everyone for your comments and votes on this over the years. While I don’t have a 100% full resolution for this suggestion, I can sum up our current recommendations here. Continued feedback is very welcome.

    Our current recommendation is to use the post-deployment script feature of SQL Source Control (released in V6.3) to manage SQL Server Agent jobs.

    An example script for this is here: https://documentation.red-gate.com/soc/common-tasks/working-with-pre-post-deployment-scripts/create-sql-server-agent-job

    As some commenters in this thread have alluded to, it is possible (and sometimes very common) for SQL Agent jobs to have steps that touch multiple databases on a single SQL Server Instance. For this reason, some customers prefer to create a separate database for instance-level management and objects (sometimes named DBA or similar) and choose to manage things like linked servers and SQL Agent jobs with the post-script associated with that database.

    This separate-database architecture also makes sense if the jobs…

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    Aleksandar commented  · 

    Lakeland's idea makes sense. much easier to keep track of changes that way.

    If you wanted to keep jobs like they are though, theres a few options. I wrote the idea of putting MSDB into source control before i tried it, only to find that i cant actually do it.

    Im quite new to sql so am constantly learning about useful things... like triggers! As such ive created a trigger that automatically updates a table when a change is made to a job :)

    Hopefully this turns out okay on this form:

    CREATE TRIGGER AFTER_JOBS_CHANGE
    ON msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps
    AFTER INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE
    AS

    MERGE DBMan.dbo.JOBS
    USING
    (
    Select
    msdb.dbo.sysjobs.name AS [job_name],
    msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps.step_id AS [step_no],
    msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps.step_name AS [step_name],
    msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps.command AS [step_details],
    msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps.step_uid AS [step_uid]
    From
    msdb.dbo.sysjobs
    JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps
    ON msdb.dbo.sysjobs.job_id=msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps.job_id
    ) AS TEMP

    ON
    ( JOBS.STEP_UID = TEMP.step_uid
    )

    WHEN MATCHED AND -- If it exists AND has changes
    (
    JOBS.JOB_NAME <> TEMP.job_name OR
    JOBS.STEP_NO <> TEMP.step_no OR
    JOBS.STEP_NAME <> TEMP.step_name OR
    JOBS.STEP_DETAILS <> TEMP.step_details
    )
    THEN
    UPDATE Set
    JOBS.JOB_NAME = TEMP.job_name,
    JOBS.STEP_NO = TEMP.step_no,
    JOBS.STEP_NAME = TEMP.step_name,
    JOBS.STEP_DETAILS = TEMP.step_details,
    JOBS.STEP_UID = TEMP.step_uid

    WHEN NOT MATCHED AND TEMP.step_uid IS NOT NULL THEN -- New files
    INSERT (JOB_NAME, STEP_NO, STEP_NAME, STEP_DETAILS, STEP_UID)
    VALUES (TEMP.job_name, TEMP.step_no,TEMP.step_name,TEMP.step_details,TEMP.step_uid)

    WHEN NOT MATCHED BY SOURCE THEN
    DELETE

    ;

    After youve done this, Just link the 'JOBS' table as static data and it works well :)

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    Aleksandar commented  · 

    While not the greatest work around, turning polling off or severely reducing polling frequency will help quite a bit. See here:

    http://www.red-gate.com/MessageBoard/viewtopic.php?t=12837