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❑ Write the information to the event log.
❑ Automatically delete the job (to prevent executing it later and generally “clean up”).
Let’s take a quick look at how to create operators in Management Studio.
Creating an Operator
If you’re going to make use of the notification features of the SQL Agent, then you must have an operator
set up to define the specifics for who is notified. This side of things — the creation of operators —
isn’t typically done through any kind of automated process or as part of the developed code; these are
usually created manually by the DBA. We’ll go ahead and take a rather brief look at it here just to understand
how it works in relation to the scheduling of tasks.
Creating an Operator Using Management Studio
To create an operator using Management Studio, you need to navigate to the SQL Server Agent node of
the server for which you’re creating the operator. Expand the SQL Server Agent node, right-click the
Operators member, and choose New Operator.
Be aware that, depending on your particular installation, the SQL Server Agent Service may not start automatically
by default. If you run into any issues or if you notice the SQL Server Agent icon in Management
Studio has a little red square in it, the service is probably set to manual or even disabled; you will probably
want to change the service to start automatically. Regardless, make sure that it is running for the
examples, Try It Out, and Exercises found in this chapter. You can do this by right-clicking the Agent
node and selecting Manage Service.
You should be presented with the dialog box shown in Figure 19-1. (Mine is partially filled in.)
Figure 19-1
Chapter 19: Playing Administrator
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