Special Maintenance Plan Query

Question

The Maintenance Plan creation is easy. Every body simply use the Maintenance Plan Wizard. But in this case I want to write program to create a Maintenance Plan using Query. My plan is Recurrence Full Backup. I used Profiler to detect related queries but the detected queries was not useful. What should I do ? I'm writing my program with Qt

Answer 1

When you want to have a recurring FULL BACKUP *job*, it's not necessary to use SSIS packages. you can simply create a job and in its Steps section create a new job step and select (Transact-SQL) for its type and then write a back up script in that step after that you should set the Schedules to make your job recurring. You can have the script of your job by right click on it. now you have a recurring job script without using SSIS programming.

Answer 2

Maintenance Plan generates SSIS Package. Try to open it in BIDS and check used components and code.

If you want to generate SSIS package programmatically there is a good start: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345167.aspx