Question

I am actually working on SP in SQL 2005. Using SP i am creating a job and am scheduling it for a particular time. These jobs take atleast 5 to 10 min to complete as the database is very huge. But I am not aware of how to check the status of the Job. I want to know if it has got completed successfully or was there any error in execution. On exception i also return proper error code. But i am not aware of where i can check for this error code.

Answer 1

This is what I could find, maybe it solves your problem:

1. SP to get the current job activiity.

 exec msdb.dbo.sp_help_jobactivity  @job_id = (your job_id here) 

You can execute this SP and place the result in a temp table and get the required result from there.

Otherwise have a look at these tables:

• msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity

• msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory

Run the following to see the association between these tables.

exec sp_helptext sp_help_jobactivity