I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. I use Management Studio -> Jobs -> Script Job as -> Drop and Create TO to generate a related sql statement so that I can import the task from another computer.
My question is that from the generated sql scripts from the very beginning I get this conclusion, there is hardcoded jobid - @job_id = N'3c5f83cd-e220-49ee-a1f1-40e37713ba1b '. My confusion is that we depend on such a hard coded value, on another computer, maybe jobid is a different value ... So can importing to another computer fail?
USE [msdb] GO IF EXISTS (SELECT job_id FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view WHERE name = N'TestCleanupJob') EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job @job_id=N'3c5f83cd-e220-49ee-a1f1-40e37713ba1b', @delete_unused_schedule=1 GO
EDIT1: all SQL Server scripts are generated here,
USE [msdb] GO /****** Object: Job [TestJob] Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/ IF EXISTS (SELECT job_id FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view WHERE name = N'TestJob') EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job @job_id=N'20dbbd83-000f-489d-ad12-46be0c61bd3f', @delete_unused_schedule=1 GO USE [msdb] GO /****** Object: Job [TestJob] Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/ BEGIN TRANSACTION DECLARE @ReturnCode INT SELECT @ReturnCode = 0 /****** Object: JobCategory [[Uncategorized (Local)]]] Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/ IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name FROM msdb.dbo.syscategories WHERE name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]' AND category_class=1) BEGIN EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_category @class=N'JOB', @type=N'LOCAL', @name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]' IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback END DECLARE @jobId BINARY(16) EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_job @job_name=N'TestJob', @enabled=1, @notify_level_eventlog=3, @notify_level_email=0, @notify_level_netsend=0, @notify_level_page=0, @delete_level=0, @description=N'No description available.', @category_name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]', @owner_login_name=N'Administrator', @job_id = @jobId OUTPUT IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback /****** Object: Step [print] Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/ EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep @ job_id=@jobId , @step_name=N'print', @step_id=1, @cmdexec_success_code=0, @on_success_action=1, @on_success_step_id=0, @on_fail_action=2, @on_fail_step_id=0, @retry_attempts=0, @retry_interval=0, @os_run_priority=0, @subsystem=N'TSQL', @command=N'pring "Hello SQL Server"', @database_name=N'master', @flags=0 IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_update_job @job_id = @jobId, @start_step_id = 1 IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobschedule @ job_id=@jobId , @name=N'testschdeule', @enabled=1, @freq_type=8, @freq_interval=1, @freq_subday_type=1, @freq_subday_interval=0, @freq_relative_interval=0, @freq_recurrence_factor=1, @active_start_date=20090803, @active_end_date=99991231, @active_start_time=0, @active_end_time=235959, @schedule_uid=N'7c9dd61b-5bb9-4a9c-858b-114621f7fa6e' IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver @job_id = @jobId, @server_name = N'(local)' IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback COMMIT TRANSACTION GOTO EndSave QuitWithRollback: IF (@@TRANCOUNT > 0) ROLLBACK TRANSACTION EndSave: GO
EDIT 2: here is my fix for using the job name different from the job id,
IF EXISTS (SELECT name FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view WHERE name = N'TestCleanupJob') EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job @job_name=N'TestCleanupJob', @delete_unused_schedule=1 GO