Scheduled jobs are a way of generating a report or record and automatically running a script. Creating a report or record is a configuration and does not require scripting. What we are interested in for scheduled jobs is the ability to automatically run a script.
A scheduled job is a helpful way to run a script at a time of your choosing. This can be an overnight job or a script that can run frequently, say, every hour. In my experience, running script out of hours is one of the main benefits and uses of a scheduled job. Common uses are preparing data for users first thing in the morning, or to remove old data.
When creating a scheduled job, we set the frequency of the scheduled job by using the run field. The different time ...
