How to print job output in the log file

Question

I'm running daily tasks of deleting historical data as a SQL server jobs. How do I print how many rows were affected in each run?

Here's a step in the job I'm interested in (replaced the actual DB name with "Database_Name_Here")

Print CAST(GETDATE() as Datetime2 (3) )

DECLARE @Deleted_Rows_1 INT;
SET @Deleted_Rows_1 = 1;
WHILE (@Deleted_Rows_1 > 0)
  BEGIN
     BEGIN TRANSACTION
 delete top (1000) FROM [Database_Name_Here].[dbo].[SESSION_LOG]
 where start_timestamp < DATEADD(MONTH, -22, GETDATE())
SET @Deleted_Rows_1 = @@ROWCOUNT;
COMMIT TRANSACTION
   CHECKPOINT
END

If I run it from SSMS, I can see this in the messages: (1020 row(s) affected) DBCC execution completed. If DBCC printed error messages, contact your system administrator.

Answer 1

Just use:

 SELECT @@ROWCOUNT

at the end of your procedure/function.

After that

• Open Job using SSMS then go into the Job Step
• Click on Advanced
• Tick Log to Table
• Tick Include Step output in History