Comparing Jobs list between AlwaysOn Replicas

  • Hi all,
    As the topic goes, I am not referring to auto mated job syncing between the primary and secondary replica, I do not mind manually creating the jobs on the secondary replica.

    However, i would like to know if there is a discrepancy in the amount of jobs between the 2 replicas(e.g.  primary has 4 jobs while secondary only has 3).

    Are we allow to create a database link aka link server from the primary replica to the secondary replica  and queries/joins their sysjobs table to find the odd one out ?

    Or please advise if there is any other better way to do so.

    Thanks!

  • szejiekoh - Friday, February 10, 2017 8:51 PM

    Hi all,
    As the topic goes, I am not referring to auto mated job syncing between the primary and secondary replica, I do not mind manually creating the jobs on the secondary replica.

    However, i would like to know if there is a discrepancy in the amount of jobs between the 2 replicas(e.g.  primary has 4 jobs while secondary only has 3).

    Are we allow to create a database link aka link server from the primary replica to the secondary replica  and queries/joins their sysjobs table to find the odd one out ?

    Or please advise if there is any other better way to do so.

    Thanks!

    Why don't you just try to set up a linked server and see what happens? Its not like you will melt the server down if it is disallowed. 🙂

    Another possibility if you need more detail about job differences is to script them out and do a text comparison. The only differences should be the various GUIDs I would think.

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

  • Hi Kevin,

    The link server will have to be created on a production and i am afraid if that the will break things up.

    But you are right, I am lacking of a test environment for alwayson and I think I need to have that to test the above.

    But on conceptually, is this the right way to do it ? 

    Regards,
    Noob

  • szejiekoh - Sunday, February 12, 2017 9:31 AM

    Hi Kevin,

    The link server will have to be created on a production and i am afraid if that the will break things up.

    But you are right, I am lacking of a test environment for alwayson and I think I need to have that to test the above.

    But on conceptually, is this the right way to do it ? 

    Regards,
    Noob

    Yep. And as long as they were named the same you could even do some other checks other than just a gross count.

    Best,
    Kevin G. Boles
    SQL Server Consultant
    SQL MVP 2007-2012
    TheSQLGuru on googles mail service

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