Monitoring the progress of an SQL query in SQL SERVER
I saw a similar question which asked how to monitor the progress of a backup/restore operation: Is there a SQL script that I can use to determine the progress of a SQL Server backup or restore process? I would like to know if there's a similar query/way to see how much time the query has left until it will end. For example, one query usually has an elapsed time of 5 minutes. I would like to know how much time is left until it will end DURING the query's execution. KM. There is no way to know how much time is left. A query's runtime depends on many things beyond the actual query itself: locking