how to know status of currently running jobs

Question

I need to know if a given Job is currently running on Ms SQL 2008 server. So as to not to invoke same job again that may lead to concurrency issues.

Answer 1

DECLARE @StepCount INT
SELECT @StepCount = COUNT(1)
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps
WHERE job_id = '0523333-5C24-1526-8391-AA84749345666' --JobID


SELECT
         [JobName]
        ,[JobStepID]
        ,[JobStepName]
        ,[JobStepStatus]
        ,[RunDateTime]
        ,[RunDuration]
    FROM
    (
        SELECT 
                j.[name] AS [JobName]
            ,Jh.[step_id] AS [JobStepID]
            ,jh.[step_name] AS [JobStepName]
            ,CASE 
                WHEN jh.[run_status] = 0 THEN 'Failed'
                WHEN jh.[run_status] = 1 THEN 'Succeeded'
                WHEN jh.[run_status] = 2 THEN 'Retry (step only)'
                WHEN jh.[run_status] = 3 THEN 'Canceled'
                WHEN jh.[run_status] = 4 THEN 'In-progress message'
                WHEN jh.[run_status] = 5 THEN 'Unknown'
                ELSE 'N/A'
                END AS [JobStepStatus]
            ,msdb.dbo.agent_datetime(run_date, run_time) AS [RunDateTime]
            ,CAST(jh.[run_duration]/10000 AS VARCHAR)  + ':' + CAST(jh.[run_duration]/100%100 AS VARCHAR) + ':' + CAST(jh.[run_duration]%100 AS VARCHAR) AS [RunDuration]
            ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER 
            (
                PARTITION BY jh.[run_date]
                ORDER BY jh.[run_date] DESC, jh.[run_time] DESC
            ) AS [RowNumber]
        FROM 
            msdb.[dbo].[sysjobhistory] jh
            INNER JOIN msdb.[dbo].[sysjobs] j
                ON jh.[job_id] = j.[job_id]
        WHERE 
            j.[name] = 'ProcessCubes' --Job Name
            AND jh.[step_id] > 0
            AND CAST(RTRIM(run_date) AS DATE) = CAST(GETDATE() AS DATE) --Current Date
    ) A
    WHERE 
        [RowNumber] <= @StepCount
        AND [JobStepStatus] = 'Failed'