Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 10/16/02 11:26

(meyvn77@yahoo.com) writes:
> I would like to know if it is possible to start a job from a stored
> procedure?

Yes. As long as you have the privileges.

> I have a DTS that I set as a job and would like to either call it from
> an ADP with
>
> Conn.Execute "EXEC msdb..sp_start_job @job_name = 'Volusia'"

Maybe better to add an adExecuteNoRecords? This could be the reason
you don't see any error message.

> I tried both of these and it does not give me an error but it does not
> run the job... what am I missing?

And SQL Server is running?

Have you checked in job history that the job is not terminating directly?


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