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 Restarting sql services within SQL job.

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sqlserverdeveloper
Posting Yak Master

243 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-27 : 14:25:37
I want to schedule a sql job to run at specific time for restarting the sql services(MSSQLServer and SQLServerAgent) and also want to send notification to all the users 5 minutes before restarting them. Please help. Thanks.

tkizer
Almighty SQL Goddess

38200 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-27 : 14:43:30
This is a bad idea.

You can schedule the restart by using the NET START and NET STOP DOS commands. You can do this through the Windows Scheduler or AT.

For notifications though, I doubt you'll be able to notify them from the database server without writing something. You can try NET SEND though and loop through sysprocesses.

Tara Kizer
Microsoft MVP for Windows Server System - SQL Server
http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/tarad/
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anonymous1
Posting Yak Master

185 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-27 : 14:43:56
if sql is stopped then the sql agent is stopped and therefore could not initial the start of sql. you probably want to do this in a scheduled task. as far as notifying the users if you have web pages connecting under pooled connections, that is not inherent. depending on your network you can send net messages to machines connected to sql, but my guess is that is not what you are after.
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evilDBA
Posting Yak Master

155 Posts

Posted - 2007-11-27 : 15:34:16
Strange, why do you need to restart SQL server?
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