Do scheduled jobs stay in memory?

My boss was looking at our SQL box, comparing the jobs list to the running
processes list. He noticed that the numbers are roughly analogous to each
other. He posed me the question, "do scheduled jobs stay in memory, or do
they release themselves when complete?"
I'm pretty sure the answer is that they release themselves, but I figured I
would bow to somebody from this group who had much more knowledge of the
matter.
Regards,
Scott
i don't know exactly what numbers you see in the job list.
if a job is running, you will see it in "current activity - process info"
to answer his question, more than likely that job (or at least pieces of it)
will stay in memory
some of its code may stay in the procedure cache.
some of its data may stay in the buffer cache.
sql server generally tries to keep everything in memory and only releases
things when it feels it's necessary.
Scott McNair wrote:

> My boss was looking at our SQL box, comparing the jobs list to the running
> processes list. He noticed that the numbers are roughly analogous to each
> other. He posed me the question, "do scheduled jobs stay in memory, or do
> they release themselves when complete?"
> I'm pretty sure the answer is that they release themselves, but I figured I
> would bow to somebody from this group who had much more knowledge of the
> matter.
> Regards,
> Scott
|||Scott,
if you look at the "current activity" in EM under Management, in Process
Info you will find the process running. You can find that when the jobs are
not running, you will not have processes related to the jobs. Yes, when a
job finishes, it releases itself.
A task (a job, a QA query etc) can possibly spin off multiple processes, so
you may have more processes then your currently running task. This might be
the reason that you sometimes see a relation between the number of processes
and processes, but that is completely coincidental.
Quentin
"Scott McNair" <scott.mcnair@.sfmco.takethispartout.com> wrote in message
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> My boss was looking at our SQL box, comparing the jobs list to the running
> processes list. He noticed that the numbers are roughly analogous to each
> other. He posed me the question, "do scheduled jobs stay in memory, or do
> they release themselves when complete?"
> I'm pretty sure the answer is that they release themselves, but I figured
I
> would bow to somebody from this group who had much more knowledge of the
> matter.
> Regards,
> Scott