If I resize job history log to see more entries listed under job history, will cause sql server agent to restart or any downtime?

Here is I am going to do:
Using SQL Server Management Studio
To resize the job history log based on raw size
In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of the SQL Server Database Engine, and then expand that instance.
Right-click SQL Server Agent, and then click Properties.
Select the History page, and then confirm that Limit size of job history logis checked.
In the Maximum job history log size box, enter the maximum number of rows the job history log should allow.
In the Maximum job history rows per job box, enter the maximum number of job history rows to allow for a job.

this change does not require SQL agent restart
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I have been trying to get to the bottom of an issue with SQL Server Agent not recording any job history. I am using SQL Server 2005 on a single Windows Server 2008 machine (i.e. no other domain controllers/active directory servers).
The SQL Server Agent service is configured to 'Log On As' NT user account 'sqlagent'. The jobs themselves are executed successfully (all 'Transact-SQL' type steps actually use the 'sa' account) however the there is no actual job history to be found for any
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database server the 'sqlagent' user account appears under Security > Logins and the SQL job history works correctly. I have attempted to add the 'sqlagent' to the Logins on the affected server using the SQL Server Surface Area configuration but this operation
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Additionally, I have attempted to use the built-in NT system account 'NETWORKSEVICES' to run the SQL Agent Service but this also results in exceptions in the error log and no job history being recorded. The entries in the error logs are very similar to those
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Log SQL Agent (Current - 11/11/2012 18:30:00)
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Hi Rama,
Thanks for your reply. I have run the query you specified and can see only one entry with "NTLM" in the auth_scheme column, all of the rest have "SQL". It figures that the entry with "NTLM" is relating to the one NT user account that can successfully log
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domain\user account has not proper rights
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SQL server agent job running as Agent Service Account whose service account does not have r/w access but is still able to write?

Hi. I am newer to SQL server security and am reviewing some of our SQL server's configuration to make sure the services are running under accounts with least privilege. I have a SQL server 2012 instance whose Agent service is configured to run
under an AD user account named 'SQLServices'. The jobs on this server are configured to run as 'SQL server agent service account', which means they should execute as user 'SQLServices'. The jobs are set up to execute SSIS packages which read and
write to a database on the same server where the agent job is scheduled and SSIS package installed (all on same server). The jobs are currently executing without error and are reading writing data correctly. Upon close examination, it turns out the
SQLServices account is not assigned to the 'sysadmin' role and had no users mapped to any databases on this server. How are these jobs working? I verified in profiler that the login name indeed is 'SqlServices'. I also verified
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some cases where that is not necessarily the case. So this is not so concerning. What is concerning is that the login 'SQLServices' had no access to the databases on that server yet it is reading and writing to the databases as if it does.
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After 2 days on this forum I found the answer to my own question. In retrospect, I should have posted this under 'SQL Server Security', but I didn't know it existed.
The 2 threads below explain that Sql agent actually runs using SID (service) NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT if you chose that when you installed. This will automatically create an associated login NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT in SQL server with sqladmin
role. This is the login that Agent uses to connect to the local instance of SQL server. If you changed to domain account to run the service during install or after using config manager, basically NT SERVICE\SQLSERVERAGENT is still
used to connect to your local instance behind the scenes (even though you will still see your domain user as account), and the domain account is used to reach outside the server.
https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/9e6bb2de-8fd0-45de-ab02-d59bbe05f72e/servicedatabase-accounts-nt-servicemssqlserver-nt-servicesqlserveragent-what-are-they-for
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/sqlserver/en-US/b83a52fd-fe11-4c28-a27b-88be8ae79f2a/how-do-i-change-sql-server-agent-service-account-to-nt-servicesqlserveragent?forum=sqlsecurity

SQL Server Agent Log showing errors [298] SQLServer Error: 10061, A network-related or instance-specific error has occurred while establishing a connection to SQL Server. Server is not found or not accessible. Check if instance name is correct and if SQL

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I have started receiving this error in the logs for the last 10 days and the Schedules Jobs for the database have stopped running. My MS CRM application is working fine.
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Check this link
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I have a SQL Server Agent Job and within it a Job Step which states "Execute Report Subscriptions" and a command which has...
exec msdb.dbo.sp_start_job '6FF53AED-855F-43AB-9FB7-064062B8012E' --9:07 subscription
GO
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Now, I find within SQL Server Agent the Job '6FF53AED-855F-43AB-9FB7-064062B8012E' and its step command which is...
exec [ReportServer].dbo.AddEvent @EventType='TimedSubscription', @EventData='ca4e5410-2758-4a1a-9b06-513821e0d962'
How can I drill-down further into the @EventData 'ca4e5410-2758-4a1a-9b06-513821e0d962' to see what it does? I do not see 'ca4e5410-2758-4a1a-9b06-513821e0d962' within SQL Server Agent and Jobs or am I way off base here as to what exactly the @EventData
parameter seems to be?
Thanks for your review and am hopeful for a reply.

Hi ITBobbyP,
According to your description, you need to know the what does SQL Server Reporting Services do when fire a subscription, right?
When you create a subscription several things are added to the RS server
A row is placed in the Subscriptions table identifying the name of the report, along with parameter settings, data driven query info and so on to process the subscription
A row is placed in the Schedule and ReportSchedule tables with the timing of the subscription
A SQL Server Agent job is created to control the scheduled execution of the report, and this is stored in the sysjobs and sysjobsteps of the MSDB database.
When the subscription runs several things happen
The SQL Server Agent job fires and puts a row in the Event table in the RS catalog with the settings necessary to process the subscription
The RS server service has a limited number of threads (2 per CPU) that poll the Event table every few seconds looking for subscriptions to process
When it finds an event, it puts a row in the Notifications table and starts processing the subscription
Please refer to the links below to see the details.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deanka/archive/2009/01/13/diagnosing-and-troubleshooting-subscriptions.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/deanka/archive/2010/02/16/troubleshooting-subscriptions-part-ii-using-the-report-services-trace-log-file.aspx
Regards,
Charlie Liao
TechNet Community Support

VBScript Runs Correctly From Command Prompt, But Not From SQL Server Agent Job

I'm trying to run this script on my local machine to do some post-batch cleanup and it doesn't run correctly from the scheduled job (or when I invoke the job).
Here's the script in question:
Option Explicit
Const filePath = "C:\Documents and Settings\jmunn\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Logs\"
Const holdDays = 6
main
Sub Main()
ClearArchive
End Sub
Sub ClearArchive()
Dim fso 'As Scripting.FileSystemObject
Dim fld 'As Scripting.Folder
Dim f 'As Scripting.File
Dim delLogName, delLogOut, delCtr
Set fso = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
Set fld = fso.GetFolder(filePath)
delLogName = filePath & "Nightly Backup - Backup Logs Deleted" & ".txt"
Set delLogOut = fso.CreateTextFile(delLogName, True)
delLogOut.WriteLine(delLogName)
delLogOut.WriteLine("")
delLogOut.WriteLine("-- The following log files were deleted on " & DateValue(Now()) & " at " & TimeValue(Now()))
delLogOut.WriteLine("")
delCtr = 0
For Each f In fld.Files
If Left(f.Name, 48) = "Nightly Backup - SQL Server Databases_Subplan_1_" And Right(LCase(f.Name), 4) = ".txt" Then
If DateDiff("d", f.DateCreated, Date()) > holdDays Then
delLogOut.WriteLine(f.Name)
fso.DeleteFile f, True
delCtr = delCtr + 1
End If
End If
Next
If delCtr = 0 Then
delLogOut.WriteLine("No log files were deleted this run...")
End If
Set fld = Nothing
Set fso = Nothing
delLogOut.Close
End Sub
If I put the script in its own file and run it from the command prompt, it runs just fine. If the script runs from the SQL Server Agent job, the for-loop will delete the files correctly, but the filenames
do not get written to the deletion log file and the counter does not get incremented, so according to the job log, nothing was deleted. Why does the script run differently from each invocation? It can't be a permission thing, the service that logs in has full
access to the directory and the files do get deleted. Any ideas out there?
Between this and other outstanding issues, I'm quickly losing faith in SQL Server. >=o(
Thanks in advance for your thoughts!
John
Version Info:
Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio      10.0.2531.0
Microsoft Analysis Services Client Tools      10.0.1600.22
Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)      3.85.1132
Microsoft MSXML      2.6 3.0 4.0 5.0 6.0
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Microsoft .NET Framework      2.0.50727.3603
Operating System      5.1.2600
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Hi
jrmunn
i am trying to execute VB script to refresh my excel files.. using Vbscript file through SQL Agent job step.
i have copied VBscript in a file with the extension RefreshExcel.vbs kept in C:\RefreshExcel.vbs
Below is the script used inside the file (RefreshExcel.vbs)
//---Script code-----------------------------------------------------------------
Dim objXL, objWB
Dim FileLocation, FileName
On Error Resume Next
'lgnConn = 1
FileLocation = "F:\Reports\Reports"
Set objXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
objXL.DisplayAlerts = False
FileName = "ReportFile1.xlsx"
'MsgBox (FileLocation & "/" & FileName)
Set objWB = objXL.Workbooks.Open(FileLocation & "/" & FileName)
objWB.EnableConnections
objXL.CalculateUntilAsyncQueriesDone
objWB.RefreshAll
objXL.CalculateUntilAsyncQueriesDone
objWB.RefreshAll
objXL.CalculateUntilAsyncQueriesDone
objWB.Save
objWB.Close
Set objWS = Nothing
Set objWB = Nothing
objXL.Quit
Set objXL = Nothing
'MsgBox ("Refresh Completed")
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------//Script complete
Now when i am trying to call this script file in SQL agent job step (as you mentioned )
as Type -cmdExec(OperatingSystem)
cscript "C:\RefreshExcel.vbs"
Issue: job step executed succesfully ,,but without performing any refresh on the excel. So i am not understandig what is going wrong. the same script file work when i am calling it through a batch file (window scheuler task). But it doesnt support
to run the file "when user is not logged in"
that is why i want to refresh my excel file through sql agent ,which can be scheduled to any time and cab be run as SQL agent credentials.
Can you please help me on this ...i have tried all the option but nothing working .. found hope by seeing your solution.
Thanks in advance.
Please help me. :-(

Sql server agent job with SSIS

Hello Experts
i have a sql server agent job that has four steps in tsql,ssis,tsql and tsql orders. the job run automatically every night and i copy paste the error message right here, any ideas please:
Date
1/27/2014 7:30:00 AM
Log
Job History (test [Mon-Fri AM])
Step ID
1
Server
server1
Job Name
name [Mon-Fri AM]
Step Name
step one
Duration
00:34:33
Sql Severity
0
Sql Message ID
0
Operator Emailed
Operator Net sent
Operator Paged
Retries Attempted
0
Message
Executed as user x\serveragent. The step was cancelled (stopped) as the result of a stop job request.

you can try default trace / event viewer to check if there is any entry on same .
How to read default trace in sql server
Thanks Saurabh Sinha
http://saurabhsinhainblogs.blogspot.in/
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