SQL with Manoj

Sometimes it get difficult or time-taking to get each and every SQL Job details, its schedule and other information. Also checking all these information in SSMS is time taking specially when your machine is running a client, and the server is located in some remote place. On the other side if you get some handy system Queries you can fire them in SSMS and get the desired results immediately, without browsing too much on heavy GUI tools.

Here are some of the System Stored Procedure queries that can be used to check the SQL Job details, like:

1. Job Details:
– Job ID/Name/Description
– Category
– Date Created/Modified
– Last/Next run Date/Time
– Current execution status

2.Job Steps
– Step ID/Names
– SQL Commands in each step
– On Success/Fail action
– Last run Duration/Retries/Date/Time

3. Job Schedule:
– Schedule ID/Name/Description
– Enable/Disable Status
– Job Frequency/Interval
– Job Start Date/Time
– Next run Date/Time
 

–> sp_help_job: system SP gives you all these information in 4 different result sets as shown in the image below. You can pass Job-Name or Job-ID as parameter to the system SP.

exec msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @job_name = 'Acquire_Source_Data'
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exec msdb.dbo.sp_help_job @job_id = 'ad8252d8-35d8-4c1f-b603-db0dfebd5e27'

–> sp_help_jobstep & sp_help_jobschedule: these 2 SPs also gives similar information provided by above SP (sp_help-job), but with single result-set. So you can execute them independently and use them in your logic.

exec msdb.dbo.sp_help_jobstep @job_id = 'ad8252d8-35d8-4c1f-b603-db0dfebd5e27'

exec msdb.dbo.sp_help_jobschedule @job_id = 'ad8252d8-35d8-4c1f-b603-db0dfebd5e27'
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