How can I determine the status of a job?

Question

I have a Stored procedure which schedules a job. This Job takes a lot of time to get completed (approx 30 to 40 min). I need to get to know the status of this Job. Below det

Answer 1

I would like to point out that none of the T-SQL on this page will work precisely because none of them join to the syssessions table to get only the current session and therefore could include false positives.

See this for reference: What does it mean to have jobs with a null stop date?

You can also validate this by analyzing the sp_help_jobactivity procedure in msdb.

I realize that this is an old message on SO, but I found this message only partially helpful because of the problem.

SELECT
    job.name, 
    job.job_id, 
    job.originating_server, 
    activity.run_requested_date, 
    DATEDIFF( SECOND, activity.run_requested_date, GETDATE() ) as Elapsed
FROM 
    msdb.dbo.sysjobs_view job
JOIN
    msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity activity
ON 
    job.job_id = activity.job_id
JOIN
    msdb.dbo.syssessions sess
ON
    sess.session_id = activity.session_id
JOIN
(
    SELECT
        MAX( agent_start_date ) AS max_agent_start_date
    FROM
        msdb.dbo.syssessions
) sess_max
ON
    sess.agent_start_date = sess_max.max_agent_start_date
WHERE 
    run_requested_date IS NOT NULL AND stop_execution_date IS NULL

Answer 2

Below script gets job status for every job on the server. It also tells how many steps are there and what is the currently running step and elasped time.

SELECT sj.Name,
    CASE
        WHEN sja.start_execution_date IS NULL THEN 'Never ran'
        WHEN sja.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL AND sja.stop_execution_date IS NULL THEN 'Running'
        WHEN sja.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL AND sja.stop_execution_date IS NOT NULL THEN 'Not running'
    END AS 'RunStatus',
    CASE WHEN sja.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL AND sja.stop_execution_date IS NULL then js.StepCount else null end As TotalNumberOfSteps,
    CASE WHEN sja.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL AND sja.stop_execution_date IS NULL then ISNULL(sja.last_executed_step_id+1,js.StepCount) else null end as currentlyExecutingStep,
    CASE WHEN sja.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL AND sja.stop_execution_date IS NULL then datediff(minute, sja.run_requested_date, getdate()) ELSE NULL end as ElapsedTime
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs sj
JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity sja
ON sj.job_id = sja.job_id
CROSS APPLY (SELECT COUNT(*) FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps as js WHERE js.job_id = sj.job_id) as js(StepCount)
WHERE session_id = (
    SELECT MAX(session_id) FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity)
ORDER BY RunStatus desc

Answer 3

This will show last run status/time or if running, it shows current run time, step number/info, and SPID (if it has associated SPID). It also shows enabled/disabled and job user where it converts to NT SID format for unresolved user accounts.

CREATE TABLE #list_running_SQL_jobs
(
    job_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL
  , last_run_date INT NOT NULL
  , last_run_time INT NOT NULL
  , next_run_date INT NOT NULL
  , next_run_time INT NOT NULL
  , next_run_schedule_id INT NOT NULL
  , requested_to_run INT NOT NULL
  , request_source INT NOT NULL
  , request_source_id sysname NULL
  , running INT NOT NULL
  , current_step INT NOT NULL
  , current_retry_attempt INT NOT NULL
  , job_state INT NOT NULL
);

DECLARE @sqluser NVARCHAR(128)
      , @is_sysadmin INT;

SELECT @is_sysadmin = ISNULL(IS_SRVROLEMEMBER(N'sysadmin'), 0);

DECLARE read_sysjobs_for_running CURSOR FOR
    SELECT DISTINCT SUSER_SNAME(owner_sid)FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs;
OPEN read_sysjobs_for_running;
FETCH NEXT FROM read_sysjobs_for_running
INTO @sqluser;

WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
    INSERT INTO #list_running_SQL_jobs
    EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs @is_sysadmin, @sqluser;
    FETCH NEXT FROM read_sysjobs_for_running
    INTO @sqluser;
END;

CLOSE read_sysjobs_for_running;
DEALLOCATE read_sysjobs_for_running;

SELECT j.name
     , 'Enbld' = CASE j.enabled
                     WHEN 0
                         THEN 'no'
                     ELSE 'YES'
                 END
     , '#Min' = DATEDIFF(MINUTE, a.start_execution_date, ISNULL(a.stop_execution_date, GETDATE()))
     , 'Status' = CASE
                      WHEN a.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL
                          AND a.stop_execution_date IS NULL
                          THEN 'Executing'
                      WHEN h.run_status = 0
                          THEN 'FAILED'
                      WHEN h.run_status = 2
                          THEN 'Retry'
                      WHEN h.run_status = 3
                          THEN 'Canceled'
                      WHEN h.run_status = 4
                          THEN 'InProg'
                      WHEN h.run_status = 1
                          THEN 'Success'
                      ELSE 'Idle'
                  END
     , r.current_step
     , spid = p.session_id
     , owner = ISNULL(SUSER_SNAME(j.owner_sid), 'S-' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(12), CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 1))) - CONVERT(BIGINT, 256) * CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 1)) / 256)) + '-' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(12), UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 4), 1)) / 256 + CONVERT(BIGINT, NULLIF(UNICODE(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 1)) / 256, 0)) - CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 1)) / 256)) + ISNULL('-' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(12), CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 5), 1))) + CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 6), 1))) * CONVERT(BIGINT, 65536) + CONVERT(BIGINT, NULLIF(SIGN(LEN(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid)) - 6), -1)) * 0), '') + ISNULL('-' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(12), CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 7), 1))) + CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 8), 1))) * CONVERT(BIGINT, 65536) + CONVERT(BIGINT, NULLIF(SIGN(LEN(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid)) - 8), -1)) * 0), '') + ISNULL('-' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(12), CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 9), 1))) + CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 10), 1))) * CONVERT(BIGINT, 65536) + CONVERT(BIGINT, NULLIF(SIGN(LEN(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid)) - 10), -1)) * 0), '') + ISNULL('-' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(12), CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 11), 1))) + CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 12), 1))) * CONVERT(BIGINT, 65536) + CONVERT(BIGINT, NULLIF(SIGN(LEN(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid)) - 12), -1)) * 0), '') + ISNULL('-' + CONVERT(NVARCHAR(12), CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 13), 1))) + CONVERT(BIGINT, UNICODE(RIGHT(LEFT(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid), 14), 1))) * CONVERT(BIGINT, 65536) + CONVERT(BIGINT, NULLIF(SIGN(LEN(CONVERT(NVARCHAR(256), j.owner_sid)) - 14), -1)) * 0), '')) --SHOW as NT SID when unresolved
     , a.start_execution_date
     , a.stop_execution_date
     , t.subsystem
     , t.step_name
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs j
    LEFT OUTER JOIN (SELECT DISTINCT * FROM #list_running_SQL_jobs) r
        ON j.job_id = r.job_id
    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity a
        ON j.job_id = a.job_id
            AND a.start_execution_date IS NOT NULL
            --AND a.stop_execution_date IS NULL
            AND NOT EXISTS
            (
                SELECT *
                FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity at
                WHERE at.job_id = a.job_id
                    AND at.start_execution_date > a.start_execution_date
            )
    LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.dm_exec_sessions p
        ON p.program_name LIKE 'SQLAgent%0x%'
            AND j.job_id = SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 7, 2) + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 5, 2) + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 3, 2) + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 1, 2) + '-' + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 11, 2) + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 9, 2) + '-' + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 15, 2) + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 13, 2) + '-' + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 17, 4) + '-' + SUBSTRING(SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('0x', p.program_name) + 2, 32), 21, 12)
    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory h
        ON j.job_id = h.job_id
            AND h.instance_id = a.job_history_id
    LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps t
        ON t.job_id = j.job_id
            AND t.step_id = r.current_step
ORDER BY 1;

DROP TABLE #list_running_SQL_jobs;

Answer 4

You haven't specified how would you like to see these details.

For the first sight I would suggest to check Server Management Studio.

You can see the jobs and current statuses in the SQL Server Agent part, under Jobs. If you pick a job, the Property page shows a link to the Job History, where you can see the start and end time, if there any errors, which step caused the error, and so on.

You can specify alerts and notifications to email you or to page you when the job finished successfully or failed.

There is a Job Activity Monitor, but actually I never used it. You can have a try.

If you want to check it via T-SQL, then I don't know how you can do that.

Answer 5

I ran into issues on one of my servers querying MSDB tables (aka code listed above) as one of my jobs would come up running, but it was not. There is a system stored procedure that returns the execution status, but one cannot do a insert exec statement without an error. Inside that is another system stored procedure that can be used with an insert exec statement.

INSERT INTO #Job
EXEC master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs 1,dbo

And the table to load it into:

CREATE TABLE #Job 
               (job_id               UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL,  
               last_run_date         INT              NOT NULL,  
               last_run_time         INT              NOT NULL,  
               next_run_date         INT              NOT NULL,  
               next_run_time         INT              NOT NULL,  
               next_run_schedule_id  INT              NOT NULL,  
               requested_to_run      INT              NOT NULL, -- BOOL  
               request_source        INT              NOT NULL,  
               request_source_id     sysname          COLLATE database_default NULL,  
               running               INT              NOT NULL, -- BOOL  
               current_step          INT              NOT NULL,  
               current_retry_attempt INT              NOT NULL,  
               job_state             INT              NOT NULL) 

Answer 6

You could try using the system stored procedure sp_help_job. This returns information on the job, its steps, schedules and servers. For example

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @Job_name = 'Your Job Name'

SQL Books Online should contain lots of information about the records it returns.

For returning information on multiple jobs, you could try querying the following system tables which hold the various bits of information on the job

• msdb.dbo.SysJobs
• msdb.dbo.SysJobSteps
• msdb.dbo.SysJobSchedules
• msdb.dbo.SysJobServers
• msdb.dbo.SysJobHistory

Their names are fairly self-explanatory (apart from SysJobServers which hold information on when the job last run and the outcome).

Again, information on the fields can be found at MSDN. For example, check out the page for SysJobs