Will a SQL Server Job Skip a Scheduled Run If It Is Already Running

Will a SQL Server Job skip a scheduled run if it is already running?

The SQL Server agent checks whether the job is already running before starting a new iteration. If you have long running job and its schedule comes up, it would be skipped until the next interval.

You can try this for yourself. If you try to start a job that's already running, you will get an error to that effect.

MS SQL job is running well but it will take double time as per given time

what is the start and completion time of the first job. If job takes longer than 10 minutes, it can not invoke the job within that time slot. So, i assume job invokes after first finishes.

Ven

Reoccurring SQL job to run on the 2nd and 4th Thursday of every month

Create two schedules on the job, one that runs on the second Thursday, and one that runs on the fourth.

Under the Frequency heading on the Scheduler, change the Occurs drop down to Monthly to get to the options you need.

Determining if a job is running

I think you can use sp_help_job to see the status of the jobs on the server. You can see more information on it here.

From my search on SQL Help, try...

EXEC dbo.sp_help_job @Job_name = 'Retreat Update'

SQL Syntax error (only when run as scheduled job)

It's a bad idea (IMO) to use double quotes for your identifiers. The standard is [] if it has to be quoted (which is also why I avoid spaces in my names so that I don't have to quote them).

SQL Agent defaults to QUOTED_IDENTIFIER being set to OFF. If you change the double quotes to brackets then this should work. Alternatively (but not recommended), you could include the first line of your script to be SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON.

For example, GETDATE() AS "Updated Date"... GETDATE() AS [Updated Date] is better. GETDATE() AS updated_date is best.

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