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SQL Agent is for running Maintenance plans, so if you don't have Maintenance plans defined (but you should have) you may not run this service. >
>Maintenance plans, yes, and also any reporting services jobs/schedules, as well as Change Data Capture in 2008, etc.
As I said this is VERY short description :-)
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