Obtaining a unique database identifier for SQL Server 2005 and later

Question

Is there a way to obtain a unique database identifier (such as a GUID) from a SQL 2005 database?

I found this article: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/micr

Answer 1

For others who are looking for a query to return the GUID of a database:

SELECT d.name, drs.database_guid, d.group_database_id 
FROM sys.databases d 
JOIN sys.database_recovery_status drs
ON d.database_id = drs.database_id

It returns the database name, database GUID and GUID of this database in availability group. If database is not in AG, the last value returns null. This works in SQL Server 2016.