Question

This is what I am trying to accomplish:

Check if database is read-only in first step of SQL Server Agent job. If this is the case – exit the job.

So I figured I will use Advanced Properties for Job Step and select “Quit the job reporting success” for “On failure cation:”

But how does one fail T-SQL script without using RAISERROR()? Reason I don’t want to use RAISERROR() is because one needs to be a member of sysadmin server role to use it.

I found rather ugly approach that works – selecting something from the table that doesn’t exist, script looks like this:

declare @DBIsRO int;

SET @DBIsRO= (SELECT is_read_only
FROM sys.databases
WHERE name = 'test')

IF @DBIsRO=1 
   select * from dd -- table dd doesn't exist in current database

However, this just seems like a kludge and I am looking for a ‘proper’ approach.

Answer 1

Reread documentation:

Severity levels from 0 through 18 can be specified by any user.
Severity levels from 19 through 25 can only be specified by members of
the sysadmin …

You can do:

raiserror( 'Readonly',16,1)