Sql Server Replication : Query Distribution Agent Profiles using T-SQL

Quick one today:

In our lab, quite frequently, we need to cross check the replication distribution agent profile settings between each environment to be sure they are set correctly. Replication Monitor provides a good way to check each agent and its profiles, but when you have many, many distribution agents in each environment, manual check is not fun.

This could be done by collecting all agent profile parameters using T-SQL

--
-- Run this query pointed to the Distributor
--
SELECT    D.id
		, D.name
		, D.publisher_database_id
		, D.publisher_id
		, D.publisher_db
		, D.publication
		, D.subscriber_id
		, D.subscriber_db
		, D.subscription_type
		, D.profile_id
		, D.creation_date
		, D.subscriber_security_mode
		, D.subscriptionstreams

		, CASE	WHEN P.agent_type = 1 THEN 'Snapshot Agent'
				WHEN P.agent_type = 2 THEN 'Log Reader Agent'
				WHEN P.agent_type = 3 THEN 'Distribution Agent'
				WHEN P.agent_type = 4 THEN 'Merge Agent'
				WHEN P.agent_type = 9 THEN 'Queue Reader Agent'
				ELSE 'Unknown'
		  END AS [AgentType]
		, P.profile_name
		, CASE	WHEN P.type = 0 THEN 'System Profile'
				WHEN P.type = 1 THEN 'User Defined Profile'
				ELSE 'UNKNOWN'
		  END AS [ProfileType]

		, PML.parameter_name
		, PM.value AS [ParameterValue_InUse]

		, PML.default_value
		, PML.min_value
		, PML.max_value

FROM dbo.MSdistribution_agents AS D
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.MSagent_profiles AS P
	ON D.profile_id = P.profile_id
	AND P.agent_type = 3 -- Distribution agent

INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.MSagent_parameters AS PM
	ON PM.profile_id = D.profile_id

INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.MSagentParameterList AS PML
	ON PML.agent_type = P.agent_type -- Distributor
	AND PML.parameter_name = SUBSTRING(PM.parameter_name, 2, 50)
GO

Result looks something like this:

Hope this helps,
_Sqltimes

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