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I'm creating a script to recreate a database for test purposes, and the database has some publications. In order to create or not the logreader agent I need to know if the current database already has one, or destroy the existing agent prior to recreate the database. I know there is some class in SMO can do that, but I need to achieve the same with T-SQL. Someone can help?

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    I'm not currently by a test box, but if you can do this with SMO then just reverse engineer the SQL to accomplish this by using XEvents or creating a SQL Trace.
    – Thomas Stringer
    Commented Jan 4, 2014 at 2:04

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Below T-SQL will give you the log reader agent. You can use the agent name or job_id to drop/delete the log reader agent.

    SELECT SERVER
    ,[command]
    ,sj.job_id
    ,[NAME]
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs sj
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps sjs ON sjs.job_id = sj.job_id
    AND subsystem = 'logreader'
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  • This works in the case of the distributor being on the same SQL instance as the publisher - but is there a way to do this if the we are executing on a remote publisher?
    – Mike
    Commented Apr 3, 2018 at 5:28

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