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I have to prepare a script which will run only on 1st day of the every month at 9PM IST and rest other days it will not run.

See script below. I am getting error in executing it.
Please suggest correct way to do .

What I have tried:

SQL

Declare @@ScriptRunDate  datetime
 set @@ScriptRunDate=  DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm, 0, GETDATE()), 0) 
 select @@ScriptRunDate
Case when 
@@ScriptRunDate
 then 
  update Cssscript set ScriptState='Active' where id='Adhoc'
else 
update Cssscript set ScriptState='InActive' where id='Adhoc'

Posted 1-Aug-18 1:59am

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Updated 1-Aug-18 6:00am

CHill60

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Patrice T 1-Aug-18 8:05am

'I am getting error in executing it.'
Which error message ?

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Solution 2

It is not polite to ask people to guess which of the 23,235,331,213 possible errors you are getting. However, I will take a stab. It is at the Case WHEN.

If looks like you actually want to use an IF statement.

SQL

IF someCondition
  BEGIN
    UPDATE ...
  END
ELSE 
  BEGIN
    UPDATE  ...
  END

Posted 1-Aug-18 2:09am

ZurdoDev

Solution 4

The easiest way to schedule the script you actually want to run and save it as a Stored Procedure, and then create an SQL Agent Job to execute that script on the first day of the month at 9AM.

Create a Job[^]

Posted 1-Aug-18 6:01am

MadMyche

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CHill60 · Accepted Answer · 2018-08-01T02:13:00

You are getting two errors:

Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'Case'.
and
Incorrect syntax near the keyword 'else'.

This should give you a clue that you are using the wrong construct. You actually want to use an IF-Statement - see IF...ELSE (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs[^]. Something like

SQL

Declare @@ScriptRunDate  datetime
 set @@ScriptRunDate=  DATEADD(mm, DATEDIFF(mm, 0, GETDATE()), 0) 
 select @@ScriptRunDate
IF @@ScriptRunDate 
	update Cssscript set ScriptState='Active' where id='Adhoc'
ELSE 
	update Cssscript set ScriptState='InActive' where id='Adhoc'

However the IF part is still wrong ... you probably want something like

SQL

IF @@ScriptRunDate = GETDATE() -- or whatever