Tag: SQL Job

Some helpful queries used to do lock/running query diagnosis.

sp_who and sp_who2 system stored procedures returns some helpful information for diagnosing current connections; but it’s hard to filter. Here’s a quick query for dumping the results into a temp table for filtering. The key field is “status” to help you determine if the connection is hung.

DECLARE @Table TABLE(
        SPID INT,
        Status VARCHAR(MAX),
        LOGIN VARCHAR(MAX),
        HostName VARCHAR(MAX),
        BlkBy VARCHAR(MAX),
        DBName VARCHAR(MAX),
        Command VARCHAR(MAX),
        CPUTime INT,
        DiskIO INT,
        LastBatch VARCHAR(MAX),
        ProgramName VARCHAR(MAX),
        SPID_1 INT,
        REQUESTID INT
)

DELETE FROM @Table
INSERT INTO @Table EXEC sp_who2

SELECT  *
FROM    @Table
WHERE DBName --...

In my case, we discovered it was a SQL Server Agent connection and it was running a job that was hanging. Some additional helpful queries to answer What is the Job Id? What are the current job statuses?

SELECT *
FROM msdb..sysjobs s 
LEFT JOIN master.sys.syslogins l 
      ONs.owner_sid = l.sid

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @Job_name = '[..]'

Stop a job:

EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_stop_job @Job_name = '[..]'

Finally, a query to request last time a stored procedure was changed:

SELECT *
FROM sys.objects
WHERE type = 'P' 
AND NAME = '[Stored Procedure Name]'