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Limiting Jobs to the Primary Replica of an AG

Chad Callihan doesn’t want jobs running willy-nilly:

Transitioning from a failover cluster configuration to an Availability Group configuration brings with it all kinds of “fun” challenges. One such challenge that you may not have considered is the handling of jobs on whatever server is Primary, along with secondary servers. Let’s briefly discuss a potential challenge and an option to address it.

Click through for the example and a solution. Eitan Blumin has another solution in the comments, so check that one as well.