Today I’m sharing a “quickly whipped script” to change the owner of SQL Agent Jobs to SA (or another of your choosing), so if the individual job owner were to leave the company and their AD account dropped, the job wouldn’t just begin failing.
Feel free to use/modify/redistribute for any reason.
SET NOCOUNT ON SELECT 'EXEC MSDB.dbo.sp_update_job ' + char(13) + '@job_name = ' + char(39) + j.[Name] + char(39) + ',' + char(13) + '@owner_login_name = ' + char(39) + 'sa' + char(39) + ', @description = ' + char(39) + CASE WHEN j.[description] = 'No description available.' THEN 'Originally owned by ' + l.name + '.' + CHAR(39) ELSE j.[description] + CHAR(13) + '. Originally owned by ' + l.name + '.' + CHAR(39) END FROM MSDB.dbo.sysjobs j INNER JOIN Master.dbo.syslogins l ON j.owner_sid = l.sid WHERE l.[name] NOT IN ('sa', 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM', 'NT SERVICE\MSSQLSERVER') ORDER BY j.[name] |
