Enter the following commands

use msdb

EXECUTE sp_addrolemember

@rolename = ‘SQLAgentReaderRole’,

@membername = ‘username’

There are 2 more SQL Agents role which are available in SQL Server 2005.

1) SQLAgentUserRole – This will allow the users to manage the jobs after they have created the job.

2) SQLAgentOperatorRole – The permissions assigned to SQLAgentUserRole are also assigned to SQLAgentOperatorRole. However, SQLAgentOperatorRole also provides permissions to the users to start the local jobs that they do not own.

Custom Code for viewing jobs

If you do not want to assign SQLAgentReaderRole then you have an option. Even if you do not have  SQL server 2005 then too you do not have to worry as there is an option. Below is the listing of jobs on the system with the custom system and also the details of the specific jobs. You can assign permissions to the users to view the jobs on the system according to you after you have created the procedure given below.

use master

go

CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_ViewJobListing]

(

@JobName VARCHAR(255)=NULL

)

AS

BEGIN

IF OBJECT_ID(‘tempdb..#Results’)>0

DROP TABLE #Results

CREATE TABLE #Results

(

job_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL,

last_run_date INT              NOT NULL,

last_run_time INT              NOT NULL,

next_run_date INT              NOT NULL,

next_run_time INT              NOT NULL,

next_run_schedule_id INT              NOT NULL,

requested_to_run INT              NOT NULL,

request_source INT              NOT NULL,

request_source_id SYSNAME   COLLATE DATABASE_DEFAULT NULL,

running  INT              NOT NULL,

current_step INT              NOT NULL,

current_retry_attempt  INT              NOT NULL,

job_state  INT              NOT NULL

)

DECLARE @JobID VARCHAR(100)

SELECT TOP 1 @JobID = job_ID FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs

INSERT INTO #Results

EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs 1, @JobID

SELECT

s.Name,

CASE WHEN s.enabled = 0 THEN ‘No’ ELSE ‘Yes’ END AS Enabled,

CASE WHEN next_run_date > 0 THEN ‘Yes’ ELSE ‘No’ END AS Scheduled,

sc.name AS Category,

current_step AS CurrentExecutionStep,

last_run_date,

next_run_date,

CASE WHEN xp.running = 0 THEN ‘Not Running’ ELSE ‘Executing…’ END AS Status,

ISNULL((

SELECT CASE WHEN run_status = 1 THEN ‘Succeeded’ WHEN run_status = 3 THEN ‘Cancelled’ WHEN run_status = 0 THEN ‘Failed’ WHEN run_status IS NULL THEN ‘Unknown’ END AS LastRunStatus

FROM

msdb..sysjobhistory sho

WHERE

sho.job_id = xp.job_id AND

sho.instance_id =

(

SELECT MAX(instance_id)

FROM msdb..sysjobhistory sj (NOLOCK)

WHERE sj.job_id = sho.job_id

)

) ,’Unknown’) AS LastRunStatus

FROM     #Results xp

INNER JOIN msdb..sysjobs s on xp.job_id = s.job_id

INNER JOIN msdb..syscategories sc on s.category_id = sc.category_id

WHERE

s.Name = ISNULL(@JobName, s.Name)

ORDER BY s.Name

IF @JobName IS NOT NULL

BEGIN

CREATE TABLE #JobHistory

(

StepID INT,

StepName SYSNAME,

Message NVARCHAR(1024),

RunStatus INT,

RunDate INT,

RunTime INT,

RunDuration INT,

operator_emailed NVARCHAR(20),

operator_netsent NVARCHAR(20),

operator_paged NVARCHAR(20)

)

INSERT INTO #JobHistory

SELECT

sjh.step_id,

sjh.step_name,

sjh.message,

sjh.run_status,

sjh.run_date,

sjh.run_time,

sjh.run_duration,

operator_emailed = so1.name,

operator_netsent = so2.name,

operator_paged = so3.name

FROM

msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory sjh

JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs sjj ON sjh.job_id = sjj.job_id

LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysoperators so1  ON (sjh.operator_id_emailed = so1.id)

LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysoperators so2  ON (sjh.operator_id_netsent = so2.id)

LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysoperators so3  ON (sjh.operator_id_paged = so3.id),

msdb.dbo.sysjobs                 sj

WHERE

sjj.Name = @JobName and

(sj.job_id = sjh.job_id)

SELECT

StepID, StepName, Message, RunDate AS LastRunTime,

CASE RunStatus

WHEN 0 THEN ‘Failed’

WHEN 1 THEN ‘Succeeded’

WHEN 2 THEN ‘Retry (step only)’

WHEN 3 THEN ‘Canceled’

WHEN 4 THEN ‘In-progress message’

WHEN 5 THEN ‘Unknown’

END AS RunStatus

FROM #JobHistory

ORDER BY LastRunTime DESC, StepID ASC

END

END

GO

EXECUTE sp_ms_marksystemobject ‘sp_ViewJobListing’

Please note :

Make sure that you do not assign permissions to the users without being sure that you are assigning these permissions to the right one. As these permissions allow the user to to see the SQL Agent jobs on the database server and this can create problems for you if you assign these permissions to a wrong user.

Also, try not to give permissions for a user to check the job of the other user on the database server which can redure the risk of any problems in future.

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