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A C# developer wants to be a DBA, but is having a hard time landing a job. Should they take a pay cut and go for a Junior level job? Or could there be another path?

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Each time I work with a new system, it can take a while to familiarize myself with what all the SQL Server Agent jobs do. Often there are quite a few jobs, and sometimes they have legacy names that either don’t describe what the job does very well anymore, or is just hard to understand.

I use the SQL agent a lot, and it is handy for a lot of things, but  it can be frustrating to not be able to pass state information between steps.