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                                         masterdineen 
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                                             Posted - 2012-03-01 : 15:36:46
                                            
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                                            | Hello everyone.What is the best method to monitor agaent jobs using SSIS?RegardsRobs | 
                                             
                                         
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                                     russell 
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                                            Posted - 2012-03-01 : 15:59:14
                                          
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                                          | I can't think of a single reason to use SSIS to monitor SQL Agent jobs.  Perhaps to report on historical run times, but not for monitoring.  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     masterdineen 
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                                            Posted - 2012-03-01 : 16:05:38
                                          
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                                          | when i say monitoring, i mean to check on a number of agent jobs to see if they are successful or not?  | 
                                         
                                        
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                                     visakh16 
                                    Very Important crosS Applying yaK Herder 
                                     
                                    
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                                            Posted - 2012-03-01 : 23:10:10
                                          
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                                          | why not log the status to a table and then pull a operational report out of it? Thats how we do it to check run status of jobs------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------SQL Server MVPhttp://visakhm.blogspot.com/  | 
                                         
                                        
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