Powershell can schedule it for you! Just script something against the SQL Server Agent to get automated now.

Pairing your on-prem SQL Server with a cloud-based instance for high availability has its challenges, but they can be overcome. Here’s how.

To do this, we’ll use an SQL Server Agent Job. Using SQL Management Studio, create a new SQL Server Agent Job: Fill in the general details and then go to the Steps page to add a couple of steps.

In SQL Server 2000, it was difficult to allow users to see the SQL Server Agent jobs on your database server without giving the user sysadmin permissions.

5. Restart sql server and the sql server agent by opening a command prompt and typing net stop mssqlserver and net start msssqlserver.