Scheduling an SSIS package execution
In this recipe, you are going to create an SQL Server Agent job with a single step using an SSIS package, configured with a specific SSIS environment. You are going to assign a schedule to the job so that it can be executed automatically.
SQL Server Agent is a special SQL Server feature, hosted on the SQL Server instance, which supports the automation of a variety of operations and processes. One of them is the execution of SSIS packages; these can be configured as one or more steps of an SQL Server Agent job.
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SQL Server Agent and SQL Server Agent jobsSQL Server Agent is available in SQL Server 2016 Enterprise, Standard, and Web editions; it is not available in the Express, nor Express with Advanced Services editions.SQL Server Agent Job is a collection of one or more operations that represent a complete unit of work to be performed automatically, for example, on a schedule. Multiple steps of an SQL Server Agent job are executed in sequence.
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