2011-07-11, 02:34 PM
or AutoIT, but since he's not looking for something specific there are hundreds of thousands of event related schedulers out there depending on what sort of events he wants to wait for.
'more versatile' is still useless. Anything can be considered more versatile than a time only scheduler but if one doesn't know what sort of things you're looking for trying to point you in any direction is futile. Hell, SQL Server Agent can respond to time, service startup, system startup and CPU idle conditions but it's hardly worth noting if none of that is relevant to what you want. Without knowing what you want to be able to do with it there is no way to answer you that isn't just throwing random names and hoping one satisfies your unstated objectives.
'more versatile' is still useless. Anything can be considered more versatile than a time only scheduler but if one doesn't know what sort of things you're looking for trying to point you in any direction is futile. Hell, SQL Server Agent can respond to time, service startup, system startup and CPU idle conditions but it's hardly worth noting if none of that is relevant to what you want. Without knowing what you want to be able to do with it there is no way to answer you that isn't just throwing random names and hoping one satisfies your unstated objectives.
It's not having what you want - It's wanting what you've got.