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  1. Allow linking to system databases

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    7 comments  ·  SQL Source Control » Initial Setup  ·  Admin →
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    Bret Lowery commented  · 

    Stephanie, it's not possible in the case of startup procs (procs in master flagged as startup by sp_procoption). These may be executed while user databases are still in recovery after a cold restart or cluster failover. Other than that one case though I think you are correct.

  2. Agent jobs

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    under review  ·  Kendra responded

    Thank you everyone for your comments and votes on this over the years. While I don’t have a 100% full resolution for this suggestion, I can sum up our current recommendations here. Continued feedback is very welcome.

    Our current recommendation is to use the post-deployment script feature of SQL Source Control (released in V6.3) to manage SQL Server Agent jobs.

    An example script for this is here: https://documentation.red-gate.com/soc/common-tasks/working-with-pre-post-deployment-scripts/create-sql-server-agent-job

    As some commenters in this thread have alluded to, it is possible (and sometimes very common) for SQL Agent jobs to have steps that touch multiple databases on a single SQL Server Instance. For this reason, some customers prefer to create a separate database for instance-level management and objects (sometimes named DBA or similar) and choose to manage things like linked servers and SQL Agent jobs with the post-script associated with that database.

    This separate-database architecture also makes sense if the jobs…

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    Bret Lowery commented  · 

    Ditto TFS