Sql-server – Halting a multi-step Agent job without resorting to “Quit the job reporting success”

sql-server-2016sql-server-agent

I have a multi-step process that sometime should stop in the middle, not because of any failure but for business reasons which are not failures.

How can I tell Agent to successfully exit the whole job? (Using "Quit the job reporting success" throws a dreaded Yellow Triangle for the job, and the Red Circle for the step, even though there are no errors.)

Since there are many steps, any one of which might legitimately fail, I'd rather not lump everything into one giant Step.

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One solution is to use multiple job steps and branch depending on the success/failure condition of the business condition - but that means the job will produce that "dreaded" yellow triangle and red circle for the step.

A second solution is to use 3 jobs and call one of two jobs based on the result of the business condition.

STEP 1 : Do something

STEP x : Test for business condition

    IF dbo.fnBusinessCondition = 1 
       EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sp_start_job 'Job2'
    else
       EXECUTE msdb.dbo.sp_start_job 'Job3'

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Use Script to update Job steps In Bulk

USE MASTER
GO
SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON
GO


    DECLARE  @job_id VARCHAR(1000),
             @Step_id INT

    DECLARE JobList CURSOR  
            FOR  

            SELECT  jb.job_ID,
                    jstp.step_id
            FROM    msdb.dbo.sysjobs jb
                    INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps jstp ON jb.job_id = jstp.job_id
            WHERE   name = 'Jobname' 
            --AND Step_name <>'Step Name'     Add Step name to filter
            ORDER BY jb.job_ID, jstp.step_id


    OPEN JobList
        FETCH NEXT FROM JobList INTO @job_id,@Step_id
        WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
            BEGIN

                     -- Execute SP sp_update_jobstep to update Job Steps and pass 2(Quit with failure) as value to parameter @on_fail_action
                    EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_update_jobstep @job_id = @job_id, @step_id = @Step_id, @on_fail_action = 2 ---- 2 Quit with failure.


                FETCH NEXT FROM JobList INTO @job_id,@Step_id
           END
        CLOSE JobList
        DEALLOCATE JobList

Note: Make sure all steps need to be updated on failure as "Quit the job reporting failure" otherwise filter them by adding in WHERE Clause

Reference Link : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189827.aspx

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