Powershell run SQL job, delay, then run the next one

Question

I am writing a Powershell script that does several things with a local SQL Server database.

One thing I am doing is running several SQL jobs, one after another. I run t

Answer 1

My suggestion would be to wrap your job in a new sproc that starts the job then waits for it to finish by continually polling its status. From the attached article, you can do something like this:

DECLARE @JobStatus INT
SET @JobStatus = 0
EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_start_job @Job_Name = 'JobName'
SELECT @JobStatus = current_execution_status  FROM OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI', 'Server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=yes;', 
                          'EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_help_job @job_name = ''JobName'', @job_aspect = ''JOB'' ')     
WHILE @JobStatus <> 4
BEGIN   
    SELECT @JobStatus = current_execution_status  FROM OPENROWSET('SQLNCLI', 'Server=localhost;Trusted_Connection=yes;', 
                                'EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_help_job @job_name = ''JobName'', @job_aspect = ''JOB'' ')    
END

Then, rather than calling sp_start_job from the command line, call your sproc from the command line and PowerShell will be blocked until that sproc finishes. Hope this helps!