SQL Agent Job: Determine how long it has been running

Question

The Scenario

There are certain SQL Agent Jobs that are scheduled to run every few minutes throughout the day.

There are legitimate times when it

Answer 1

/**** FOR CURRENTLY RUNNING JOBS ****/
SELECT j.name AS Job_Name,DATEDIFF(ss,a.start_execution_date ,GETDATE ())   
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity a INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs j 
ON a.job_id =j.job_id
WHERE CONVERT(DATE,a.start_execution_date )=CONVERT(DATE,GETDATE ())
AND a.stop_execution_date IS NULL


/*This code will give u the Name of currently running jobs and for how much time it is running & after that u can add filters to it as u wish*/
/*Thanks in advance*/