This article provides an overview of the SQL Server Agent, which is a Microsoft Windows service that executes scheduled administrative tasks (called jobs) in SQL Server and Azure SQL Managed Instance.

Using SQL Server Agent in AzureSQL Managed Instance, you can create and schedule jobs that could be periodically executed against one or many databases. These SQL Agent jobs run Transact-SQL (T-SQL) ...

As today’s database administrators (DBAs) manage the complexity of modern database environments, particularly containerized systems, they must lean into smart automation to transform database ...