functions/Remove-DbaAgentJob.ps1
function Remove-DbaAgentJob { <# .SYNOPSIS Remove-DbaAgentJob removes a job. .DESCRIPTION Remove-DbaAgentJob removes a a job in the SQL Server Agent. .PARAMETER SqlInstance SQL Server instance. You must have sysadmin access and server version must be SQL Server version 2000 or greater. .PARAMETER SqlCredential Allows you to login to servers using SQL Logins as opposed to Windows Auth/Integrated/Trusted. To use: $scred = Get-Credential, then pass $scred object to the -SqlCredential parameter. To connect as a different Windows user, run PowerShell as that user. .PARAMETER Job The name of the job. Can be null if the the job id is being used. .PARAMETER KeepHistory Specifies to keep the history for the job. By default is history is deleted. .PARAMETER KeepUnusedSchedule Specifies to keep the schedules attached to this job if they are not attached to any other job. By default the unused schedule is deleted. .PARAMETER WhatIf Shows what would happen if the command were to run. No actions are actually performed. .PARAMETER Confirm Prompts you for confirmation before executing any changing operations within the command. .PARAMETER Silent Use this switch to disable any kind of verbose messages .NOTES Original Author: Sander Stad (@sqlstad, sqlstad.nl) Tags: Agent, Job Website: https://dbatools.io Copyright: (C) Chrissy LeMaire, clemaire@gmail.com License: GNU GPL v3 https://opensource.org/licenses/GPL-3.0 .LINK https://dbatools.io/Remove-DbaAgentJob .EXAMPLE Remove-DbaAgentJob -SqlInstance sql1 -Job Job1 Removes the job from the instance with the name Job1 .EXAMPLE Remove-DbaAgentJob -SqlInstance sql1 -Job Job1 -KeepHistory Removes the job but keeps the history .EXAMPLE Remove-DbaAgentJob -SqlInstance sql1 -Job Job1 -KeepUnusedSchedule Removes the job but keeps the unused schedules .EXAMPLE Remove-DbaAgentJob -SqlInstance sql1, sql2, sql3 -Job Job1 Removes the job from multiple servers .EXAMPLE sql1, sql2, sql3 | Remove-DbaAgentJob -Job Job1 Removes the job from multiple servers using pipe line #> [CmdletBinding(SupportsShouldProcess = $true, ConfirmImpact = "Low")] param( [parameter(Mandatory = $true, ValueFromPipeline = $true)] [Alias("ServerInstance", "SqlServer")] [object[]]$SqlInstance, [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [PSCredential]$SqlCredential, [Parameter(Mandatory = $true)] [ValidateNotNullOrEmpty()] [object[]]$Job, [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [switch]$KeepHistory, [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [switch]$KeepUnusedSchedule, [Parameter(Mandatory = $false)] [switch]$Silent ) process { foreach ($instance in $sqlinstance) { # Try connecting to the instance Write-Message -Message "Attempting to connect to $instance" -Level Output try { $server = Connect-SqlInstance -SqlInstance $instance -SqlCredential $SqlCredential } catch { Stop-Function -Message "Failure" -Category ConnectionError -ErrorRecord $_ -Target $instance -Continue } foreach ($j in $Job) { # Check if the job exists if ($Server.JobServer.Jobs.Name -notcontains $j) { Write-Message -Message "Job $j doesn't exists on $instance" -Warning } else { # Get the job try { $smoJob = $Server.JobServer.Jobs[$j] } catch { Stop-Function -Message "Something went wrong creating the job. `n$($_.Exception.Message)" -Target $instance -Continue } # Delete the history if (-not $KeepHistory) { Write-Message -Message "Purging job history" -Level Verbose $smoJob.PurgeHistory() } # Execute if ($PSCmdlet.ShouldProcess($instance, "Removing the job on $instance")) { try { Write-Message -Message "Removing the job" -Level Output if ($KeepUnusedSchedule) { # Drop the job keeping the unused schedules Write-Message -Message "Removing job keeping unused schedules" -Level Verbose $smoJob.Drop($true) } else { # Drop the job removing the unused schedules Write-Message -Message "Removing job removing unused schedules" -Level Verbose $smoJob.Drop($false) } } catch { Stop-Function -Message "Something went wrong removing the job. `n$($_.Exception.Message)" -Target $instance -Continue } } } } # foreach object job } # forech object instance } # process end { Write-Message -Message "Finished removing jobs(s)." -Level Output } } |