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On a legacy SQL 2000 box that is awaiting upgrade
Does anyone have a script to kill / abort a job in SQL Agent 2000 if it over runs a set duration or overlaps with another agent job.
This is causing us a serious problem every few weeks a job overuns then locks the reindex job and that freezes our 24 / 7 server
One solution would be to add a step at the beginning of the job with which the long-running job overlaps which checks whether the long-running job is still running, and if it is issue an
sp_stop_jobcommand.You can get the current execution status of a job using
sp_help_job, but its output is not very easy to manipulate in a query.Various methods of coercing the output of
sp_help_jobinto a temp table in SQL 2000 are discussed here – alternatively you can querymsdb.sysjobhistoryto get the execution status information.