Execute a stored procedure from a windows form asynchronously and then disconnect?

Question

I am calling a stored procedure from my application that can take 30 minutes to execute.

I don\'t want to make my user leave the application open for that entire tim

Answer 1

If you really want to close down your application completely, I suggest you define a job in SQL Server Agent, and just execute a T-SQL statement to start that job manually. The syntax is:

sp_start_job 
     {   [@job_name =] 'job_name'
       | [@job_id =] job_id }
     [ , [@error_flag =] error_flag]
     [ , [@server_name =] 'server_name']
     [ , [@step_name =] 'step_name']
     [ , [@output_flag =] output_flag]

The job would execute your stored procedure. You will have to be a little creative to pass in any arguments. For example, insert the parameters into a "queue" table and have the job process all the rows in the queue.

Instead of a job, an insert trigger on your queue should work as well.