BizTalk is shipped out with a total of 13 SQL Agent jobs. Two of these jobs must be configured. The two jobs that needs configuration are the two most important jobs. The "Backup BizTalk Server" and the "DTA Purge and Archive". For more information about the different jobs look at the headings below.
This is the job provided by Microsoft to do a best practice backup of the BizTalk databases. This job has to be configured for it to be able to run. Look at the references on how to set up this job. The job contains three steps
Configuring the Backup BizTalk Server job
Criticality : Low
This job will delete all expired BizTalk Framework from the management database, it automates the archiving of tracked messages and purging of the BizTalk tracking database. This is to maintain a healthy system and to keep the tracking data archived for future use.
Criticality : High
This SQL Agent job detects whenever a Host Instance has stopped responding and releases all the work for this host instance in the message box so that another Host Instance can take over the job.
Criticality : Very High
This SQL Agent jobs removes and message that are no longer referenced by any subscribers in the message box database, it also initiates the SQL Agent job MessageBox_Message_ManageRefCountLog_BizTalkMsgBoxDb.
This SQL Agent Job manages the reference count logs for messages and determine when a message in the Message box database is no longer being referenced to a subscriber.
Criticality : Medium
This SQL Agent job removes all message parts in the message box that are no longer referenced by and messages or instances.
This SQL Agent Job updates statistics for the message box database.
This SQL Agent Job is new to BizTalk 2010, it scans for any errors on the BizTalk servers, for example orphaned instances, however it does not solve any issues. It searches the BizTalk databases to locate any issues described in the bulletin below:
If this jobs encounters and errors it will fail and report the error in the SQL Agent log file
This SQL Agent job is used if you have multiple messages box databases. it asynchronously performs operational actions to convey the information to the correct database.
This SQL Agent job purges unused subscription predicates from the Message box database.
This SQL Agent job purges old audit data from the Rule Engine database that is over 90 days, it also purges old history data (deploy/undeploy notifications from the rule engine database every third day.
This SQL Agent job copies message bodies from a tracked messages into the Tracking database from the message box database.
This SQL Agent job purges and archives information from the tracking database, you do need to configure this job in order for it to work.
Configure the DTA Purge and Archive SQL Agent job
Information regarding the SQL Agent jobs for BizTalk
Another important place to find a huge amount of BizTalk related articles is the TechNet Wiki itself. The best entry point is BizTalk Server Resources on the TechNet Wiki.
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