How to run a stored procedure every day in SQL Server Express Edition?

Question

How is it possible to run a stored procedure at a particular time every day in SQL Server Express Edition?

Notes:

• This is needed to truncate an audit t

Answer 1

Since SQL Server express does not come with SQL Agent, you can use the Windows scheduler to run a SQLCMD with a stored proc or a SQL script.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms162773.aspx

Answer 2

SQL Scheduler from http://www.lazycoding.com/products.aspx

• Free and simple
• Supports all versions of SQL Server 2000, 2005, and 2008
• Supports unlimited SQL Server instances with an unlimited number of jobs.
• Allows to easily schedule SQL Server maintenance tasks: backups, index rebuilds, integrity checks, etc.
• Runs as Windows Service
• Email notifications on job success and failure

Answer 3

Our company also use SQLEXPRESS and there is no SQL Agent.

Since there is no marked answer as "right" and all the solutions are quite complex I'll share what I did there. May be its really bad, but it worked great to me.

I've chosen operations of Insertion (people do) to a table that got closely the same time range i needed and made a trigger "ON INSERT" that applies needed function.

Answer 4

If you are using Express Edition, you will need to use the Windows Scheduler or the application connecting to the server in some way.

You would use the scheduler to run sqlcmd. Here are some instructions for getting the sqlcmd working with express edition.

Answer 5

Another approach to scheduling in SQL Express is to use Service Broker Conversation Timers. To run a stored procedure periodically, which you can use to bootstrap a custom scheduler.

See eg Scheduling Jobs in SQL Server Express

Answer 6

You could use Task Scheduler to fire a simple console app that would execute the Sql statement.