Does SQL Server Agent predate Windows Task Scheduler?
An old guru once told me that SQL Server Agent was created because Windows Task Scheduler did not exist at the time. However, all of my research shows that they both released in 1995. For Task Scheduler, Wikipedia plainly says 1995. For SQL Sever Agent, I have found it much harder to find the release date. This old relic says that a version of it by the name of "SQL Executive" existed in SQL Server 6... which Wikipedia also puts at 1995. I do not know if this was the first release of Agent. So when did SQL Server Agent and Windows Task Scheduler first release to the public? I generally find it very hard to find when old pieces of SQL Server came in to existence. For example, I have no idea when the BCP utility was released. It's as if all of the history of SQL Server is contained only in dead tree form. I frequently find that my best source of history on it is old forum posts of people reporting bugs. After all, bugs in software cannot exist prior to said software.
An old guru once told me that SQL Server Agent was created because Windows Task Scheduler did not exist at the time. However, all of my research shows that they both released in 1995. For Task Scheduler, Wikipedia plainly says 1995. For SQL Sever Agent, I have found it much harder to find the release date. This old relic says that a version of it by the name of "SQL Executive" existed in SQL Server 6... which Wikipedia also puts at 1995. I do not know if this was the first release of Agent. So when did SQL Server Agent and Windows Task Scheduler first release to the public?
I generally find it very hard to find when old pieces of SQL Server came in to existence. For example, I have no idea when the BCP utility was released. It's as if all of the history of SQL Server is contained only in dead tree form. I frequently find that my best source of history on it is old forum posts of people reporting bugs. After all, bugs in software cannot exist prior to said software.
