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

I don't know which GUID SMO returns, but you could use

select service_broker_guid from sys.databases

which is != Guid.Empty for all databases except master and model.

I found that not all databases have a NOT NULL sys.database_recovery_status.database_guid, as was suggested by Remus.

Tests done on SQL2008