Most Recent Job Status of All Enabled Jobs

Colin Stasiuk — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 18:50:03 +0000

Seems easy enough… and maybe it is easy and someone is going to comment with something fantastical *hint hint hint* but until that happens… I would like… if I may… to take you on a strange journey

Use Case: I want to be able (using CMS- Central Management Server) connect to all my SQL Servers (2000, 2005, and 2008) and get the most recent job execution status for all enabled SQL Server Agent Jobs.

At first I thought I was going to be smart (keep your jokes to yourself and try to concentrate )…. so like I was saying… at first I thought I was going to be smart and create a temp table to store the value of sp_help_job and then work with the data from there.

Apparently sp_help_job uses INSERT EXEC itself so when I tried to run my fancy code I got this:

Msg 8164, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_get_composite_job_info, Line 67

An INSERT EXEC statement cannot be nested.

Fail

So yeah… that pretty well stopped me in my tracks with that idea. There are a couple tricks to get around that one but I either couldn’t use them cause I’m querying against SQL 2000 still or I wasn’t comfortable with the “workaround” as it felt a bit hack-fu.

So this is what I came up with…

SELECT	A.Name as 'JobName', Sub5.MaxRunDate, Sub5.MaxRunTime, Sub5.MostRecentJobStatus
FROM	msdb.dbo.sysJobs A LEFT OUTER JOIN
		(SELECT	A.Job_ID, Sub4.MaxRunDate, Sub4.MaxRunTime,
				CASE	A.run_status
						WHEN 0 THEN 'Failed'
						WHEN 1 THEN 'Successful'
						WHEN 2 THEN 'Retry'
						WHEN 3 THEN 'Cancelled'
						WHEN 4 THEN 'In Progress'
				END as 'MostRecentJobStatus'
		FROM	msdb.dbo.sysJobHistory A INNER JOIN
				(	SELECT	A.Job_ID, Sub3.MaxRunDate, Sub3.MaxRunTime, Sub3.MaxStepID, MAX(A.Instance_ID) as 'MaxInstanceID'
					FROM msdb.dbo.sysJobHistory A INNER JOIN
						(	SELECT	A.Job_ID, Sub2.MaxRunDate, Sub2.MaxRunTime, MAX(A.Step_ID) as 'MaxStepID'
							FROM msdb.dbo.sysJobHistory A INNER JOIN
								(	SELECT	A.Job_ID, Sub1.MaxRunDate, MAX(A.run_time) as 'MaxRunTime'
									FROM	msdb.dbo.sysJobHistory A INNER JOIN
									(	SELECT	A.Job_ID, MAX(A.run_date) as 'MaxRunDate'
										FROM	msdb.dbo.sysJobHistory A
										GROUP BY A.Job_ID) Sub1 ON
											A.Job_ID = Sub1.Job_ID AND
											A.run_date = Sub1.MaxRunDate
									GROUP BY A.Job_ID, Sub1.MaxRunDate) Sub2 ON
										A.Job_ID = Sub2.Job_ID AND
										A.run_date = Sub2.MaxRunDate AND
										A.run_time = Sub2.MaxRunTime
							GROUP BY A.Job_ID, Sub2.MaxRunDate, Sub2.MaxRunTime) Sub3 ON
									A.Job_ID = Sub3.Job_ID AND
									A.run_date = Sub3.MaxRunDate AND
									A.run_time = Sub3.MaxRunTime AND
									A.Step_ID = Sub3.MaxStepID
						GROUP BY A.Job_ID, Sub3.MaxRunDate, Sub3.MaxRunTime, Sub3.MaxStepID) Sub4 ON
							A.Job_ID = Sub4.Job_ID AND
							A.run_date = Sub4.MaxRunDate AND
							A.run_time = Sub4.MaxRunTime AND
							A.Step_ID = Sub4.MaxStepID AND
							A.Instance_ID = Sub4.MaxInstanceID) Sub5 ON
		A.Job_ID = Sub5.Job_ID
WHERE	A.[Enabled] = 1
ORDER BY A.Name

Now I’m the first to admit that this looks… well horrible…but it seems to work and get me the information I want.

Add in a simple Sub5.MostRecentJobStatus = ‘Failed’ and now you’re querying your whole environment for any job that has failed.

I do have notifications setup to email me whenever a job fails, but being a bit on the anal retentive side I like to have a script like this ready to go just in case I ever want a quick ad-hoc view of things

Like I said at the start of this post… I’m hoping that someone has something much easier to look at and use… so if you got it… flaunt it and comment below!!

Enjoy!!

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Most Recent Job Status of All Enabled Jobs