Executing a Stored Procedure at regular intervals using SQL Server Express Edition

SQL Server Express does not contain SQL Agent which can help us scheduling jobs. So to execute a stored procedure at regular intervals in SQL Express, we can use a Windows scheduler or Task Scheduler to execute a SQL Procedure using a SQLCMD.

I have covered Executing a Stored Procedure using SQLCMD, so I won’t be repeating the steps here. The only additional step is to create a batch file (Create a .txt and rename it to .bat) and add the commands to the batch file. Then use the Task Scheduler to execute this batch file at regular intervals

To see a practical example, like backing up a database at regular intervals using SQL Server Express , SQL Server MVP Jonathan Kehayias has covered these steps in an article over here called How to Automate Database Backups with SQL Server Express.

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