December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
Credentials are frequently used with SQL Server Agent jobs. When you're configuring SQL Server Agent jobs for any automated task, you have to choose a category of the job step. Several categories allow you to select the security context, which will be used to run the particular part of the scheduled task. There's usually an option visible to run the job step within the context of the SQL Server Agent account, but that is reserved to sysadmin role members only.
If you're not a sysadmin, you need to choose a job proxy, which is in the end mapped to the existing credential. This choice is active for most of the step types, except the Transact-SQL script step, which does not utilize a proxy:
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