Dave Bland takes us through SQL Agent job auto-deletion:
Have you ever looked at something in SQL Server and wonder why it is there? That is what I think when I see this option in the SQL Server Agent job properties. I can not come up with any good reason of why you would want a job to delete itself upon completion. I even did a Google search and really didn’t find a good reason. However, if you know of a great reason of why you would want to enable this, I would love to hear about it.
I’ve used it in the past for scheduling ephemeral work, particularly when I didn’t have the ability to control operations otherwise. For example, I need to perform a time-consuming one-time update on data, but I don’t want to tie it to a script on my machine because I wanted to go home that night. Creating a job which auto-deletes upon success lets me schedule it for when I want it to run, kick off the script, and not leave a mess behind in the SQL Agent jobs list. It’s a case where I don’t really care about history and checking the box gives me a quick indicator of success: if the job’s gone in the morning, my work here is done; if not, I need to begin troubleshooting.