I never actually saw the code that makes this work (thank Christ) but at the previous place I worked, we did everything in SQL. Believing SQL Agent to be 'too l

I never actually saw the code that makes this work (thank Christ) but at the previous place I worked, we did everything in SQL. Believing SQL Agent to be 'too limited', my boss had taken it upon himself to reimplement it... in SQL... Just let that sink in for a moment. There were 20+ tables all modelled after how SQL Agent does its own scheduling, 30+ stored procedures for interacting with it, and it was all intended for use with a GUI that was (naturally) never written. A relationship diagram of the tables sat on my personal Wall of Shame board for most of the time I was there. And yes, I had to use it from time to time. It was installed in every database for 200+ clients, in production, UAT, development, you name it. The most delicious irony is, the only way such a thing could run automatically... was to use a SQL Agent job to poll it once a minute.