Transactional replication - what does sys.sp_MSrepl_monitor_job_at_failover procedure do?

Hi AndrzejSzczechla ,

The document you mentioned explain very good what each job is doing. I can elaborate a bit more if needed but I am not sure what you are looking for. Check if this help you (please try to elaborate a bit more if this is not what you are looking for):

Replication agents run multiple tasks using executables, which can also be called directly from the command line. These include:

• Replication Snapshot Agent: snapshot.exe
• Replication Distribution Agent: distrib.exe
• Replication Log Reader Agent: logread.exe
• Replication Queue Reader Agent: qrdrsvc.exe
• Replication Merge Agent: replmerg.exe

For more information check this document which also include a link to more detail about each executable: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/replication/agents/replication-agent-administration?view=sql-server-ver16&WT.mc_id=DP-MVP-5001699

The jobs which you speak about are probably these who run the above executables.

Note: if you want to find all the system tables related to the jobs then you can use a simple query to search the content of the jobs steps. Use SELECT from system tables msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps inner join with msdb.dbo.sysjobs (on the column job_id on both tables).

Note: To view the definition of a procedure use the built in stored procedure sp_helptext.

To get the exact information of the SP you can also go direcly o this page which present a link to each one: http://www.g-productions.nl/category.php?category=Replication&cat=1