sql-agent

问题 Is it possible to log custom messages from your SQL Server Agent job in the job history messages? If not what's the best way to go about doing such a thing? 回答1: For T-SQL job steps, you can use the print statement. For CmdExec steps, use Console.Writeline in your executable. If there is a lot of output, then by default SQL Agent will not keep all of, and will only keep a certain number of characters. To have it keep all output for a step, you go to the step properties, Advanced, and check

问题 SQL Server Agent has a 512 characters limit on texts fields like nvarchar(max). I found this out after seeing my stored procedure is working correctly when I run it in SSMS but not working when is being run by a SQL Server job. To fix this I know I can use SET TEXTSIZE { number } in my stored procedure to increase this number. However I don't want to add this line in each and every stored procedure that are being run by SQL Server jobs. Is there a way that I can set this value for SQL Server

问题 I need to know if a given Job is currently running on Ms SQL 2008 server. So as to not to invoke same job again that may lead to concurrency issues. 回答1: It looks like you can use msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity , checking for a record with a non-null start_execution_date and a null stop_execution_date, meaning the job was started, but has not yet completed. This would give you currently running jobs: SELECT sj.name , sja.* FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity AS sja INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs AS sj ON sja