Scheduled Job History

Is there a way to increase the number of records preserved in job
history? I have 82 jobs on my box, 30 of them run every 20 minutes
for 23 hours a day, every 30 days. Another 30 run once, every 30
days. The system seems to have a limit of 50 history records for any
job that hasn't run since yesterday and purges all history records if
the job is more than a week old. I didn't know if there might be a
configuration record buried in MSDB or somewhere else that would allow
me to increase this size or perhaps a system SP that prunes job
history that I could modify.

It isn't critical as the system is set to notify me when jobs fail,
but still, I'd like to be able to look at a given day and verify that
everything went normally."P.D.N. Tame" <wwphx@.hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> Is there a way to increase the number of records preserved in job
> history? I have 82 jobs on my box, 30 of them run every 20 minutes
> for 23 hours a day, every 30 days. Another 30 run once, every 30
> days. The system seems to have a limit of 50 history records for any
> job that hasn't run since yesterday and purges all history records if
> the job is more than a week old. I didn't know if there might be a
> configuration record buried in MSDB or somewhere else that would allow
> me to increase this size or perhaps a system SP that prunes job
> history that I could modify.
> It isn't critical as the system is set to notify me when jobs fail,
> but still, I'd like to be able to look at a given day and verify that
> everything went normally.

In Enterprise Manage, right-click SQL Server Agent, then pick Properties,
Job System, and set the history options as you want. You can also use
sp_set_sqlagent_properties, but this procedure isn't documented, so it may
not be the best way to go.

Simon