Question 460
At Brookside Manufacturing, the production analytics data team maintains a plant inventory and factory operations database estate with requirements for planned outages and accurate production reporting. The operations owner asks for a validation result for: A team changes SQL Server Agent schedules through ad hoc T-SQL commands but never records who approved the change or its rollback. Which observed result BEST proves the intended problem is corrected?
Explanation
Correct Answer
An audit compares the deployed schedule to its reviewed script and an approved rollback restores the prior execution window. That observable result supports resolution of: A team changes SQL Server Agent schedules through ad hoc T-SQL commands but never records who approved the change or its rollback. The corresponding corrective change is: Manage Agent job and schedule changes through controlled scripts and versioned configuration with documented approval. The Brookside Manufacturing reviewer can distinguish demonstrated database behavior from an untested change claim.
Incorrect Answers
The test Azure SQL Database receives the expected maintenance result without attempting to start an unsupported embedded Agent service. That result is evidence for another corrective change: Identify SQL Server Agent dependencies and redesign suitable recurring tasks using supported elastic jobs or Azure automation services. The alternative problem is: A migration from SQL Server to Azure SQL Database assumes every SQL Server Agent job will continue to run inside the single database service. The current Brookside Manufacturing issue is instead: A team changes SQL Server Agent schedules through ad hoc T-SQL commands but never records who approved the change or its rollback. Its decisive acceptance evidence would be: An audit compares the deployed schedule to its reviewed script and an approved rollback restores the prior execution window.
The scheduled maintenance completes while the job identity cannot perform an unrelated privileged server administration action. That result is evidence for another corrective change: Choose a least-privilege job owner or supported proxy/credential configuration and scope each job step's required permissions. The alternative problem is: A nightly Agent job uses a high-privilege SQL login for routine index maintenance even though a narrower execution context is possible. The current Brookside Manufacturing issue is instead: A team changes SQL Server Agent schedules through ad hoc T-SQL commands but never records who approved the change or its rollback. Its decisive acceptance evidence would be: An audit compares the deployed schedule to its reviewed script and an approved rollback restores the prior execution window.
The incident identifies the missing execution trigger and the next approved run generates an expected logged completion. That result is evidence for another corrective change: Inspect the SQL Server Agent service, enabled status, schedules, step outputs and job history to isolate the actual failure. The alternative problem is: An operations team suspects an Agent job never started but examines application tables instead of checking service and job execution history. The current Brookside Manufacturing issue is instead: A team changes SQL Server Agent schedules through ad hoc T-SQL commands but never records who approved the change or its rollback. Its decisive acceptance evidence would be: An audit compares the deployed schedule to its reviewed script and an approved rollback restores the prior execution window.