strange scripts generated by SQL Server when exporting a job

Question

Hello everyone,

I am using SQL Server 2008 Enterprise. I am using Management Studio -> Jobs -> Script Job as -> Drop and Create TO feature to generate related sql statement so that from another computer I can import the job.

My question is, from the generated sql scripts, from the beginning there is output like this, there is a hard coded jobid -- @job_id=N'3c5f83cd-e220-49ee-a1f1-40e37713ba1b'. My confusion is if we dependent on such hard coded value, on another computer maybe jobid is a different value... So importing into another computer may fail?

USE [msdb]
GO

IF  EXISTS (SELECT job_id FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view WHERE name = N'TestCleanupJob')
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job @job_id=N'3c5f83cd-e220-49ee-a1f1-40e37713ba1b', @delete_unused_schedule=1
GO

EDIT1: here is the whole SQL Server scripts generated,

USE [msdb]
GO

/****** Object:  Job [TestJob]    Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/
IF  EXISTS (SELECT job_id FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view WHERE name = N'TestJob')
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job @job_id=N'20dbbd83-000f-489d-ad12-46be0c61bd3f', @delete_unused_schedule=1
GO

USE [msdb]
GO

/****** Object:  Job [TestJob]    Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/
BEGIN TRANSACTION
DECLARE @ReturnCode INT
SELECT @ReturnCode = 0
/****** Object:  JobCategory [[Uncategorized (Local)]]]    Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT name FROM msdb.dbo.syscategories WHERE name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]' AND category_class=1)
BEGIN
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_category @class=N'JOB', @type=N'LOCAL', @name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]'
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback

END

DECLARE @jobId BINARY(16)
EXEC @ReturnCode =  msdb.dbo.sp_add_job @job_name=N'TestJob', 
     @enabled=1, 
     @notify_level_eventlog=3, 
     @notify_level_email=0, 
     @notify_level_netsend=0, 
     @notify_level_page=0, 
     @delete_level=0, 
     @description=N'No description available.', 
     @category_name=N'[Uncategorized (Local)]', 
     @owner_login_name=N'Administrator', @job_id = @jobId OUTPUT
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
/****** Object:  Step [print]    Script Date: 08/03/2009 00:45:20 ******/
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobstep @job_id=@jobId, @step_name=N'print', 
     @step_id=1, 
     @cmdexec_success_code=0, 
     @on_success_action=1, 
     @on_success_step_id=0, 
     @on_fail_action=2, 
     @on_fail_step_id=0, 
     @retry_attempts=0, 
     @retry_interval=0, 
     @os_run_priority=0, @subsystem=N'TSQL', 
     @command=N'pring "Hello SQL Server"', 
     @database_name=N'master', 
     @flags=0
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_update_job @job_id = @jobId, @start_step_id = 1
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobschedule @job_id=@jobId, @name=N'testschdeule', 
     @enabled=1, 
     @freq_type=8, 
     @freq_interval=1, 
     @freq_subday_type=1, 
     @freq_subday_interval=0, 
     @freq_relative_interval=0, 
     @freq_recurrence_factor=1, 
     @active_start_date=20090803, 
     @active_end_date=99991231, 
     @active_start_time=0, 
     @active_end_time=235959, 
     @schedule_uid=N'7c9dd61b-5bb9-4a9c-858b-114621f7fa6e'
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
EXEC @ReturnCode = msdb.dbo.sp_add_jobserver @job_id = @jobId, @server_name = N'(local)'
IF (@@ERROR <> 0 OR @ReturnCode <> 0) GOTO QuitWithRollback
COMMIT TRANSACTION
GOTO EndSave
QuitWithRollback:
    IF (@@TRANCOUNT > 0) ROLLBACK TRANSACTION
EndSave:

GO

EDIT 2: here is my fix to use Job Name other than Job ID,

IF  EXISTS (SELECT name FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view WHERE name = N'TestCleanupJob')
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_delete_job @job_name=N'TestCleanupJob', @delete_unused_schedule=1
GO

thanks in advance, George

Answer 1

You can use @job_name parameter for sp_delete_job procedure instead of @job_id.