SQL Job Query help not from job history or from Job activity

Question

Hi I have two jobs ABC and XYZ

Now I want to make condition like this

Check abc job run today

If yes then run XYZ

If No then run ABC

Please give me a query i think there must be some table from MSDB that helps us but i am not sure which one

Answer 1

The following blog post is on the programmatic execution of jobs:

http://www.sqlusa.com/bestpractices2005/startjobfromstoredproc/

Check the query on job history.

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Kalman Toth SQL 2008 GRAND SLAM
Paperback/Kindle: SQL Server 2012 Pro

Answer 2

Hi,

select Job_name, run_date,run_status from
msdb.sysjobhistory sjh inner join msdb.sysjobs s
on sjh.job_id=sj.job_idwhere sj.name='<<JobName>>'

this would give you the last run status and run date for a job

You can have a SP that checks the status and depending on the run status you can start either of the job using sp_start_job

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Regards
Satheesh

Answer 3

Hi

PowerShell scripts to give various pieces of information and put together a PowerShell script that could be run as a SQL Agent job to periodically report the statuses of SQL Agent jobs.  Eventually, I think Colin went with a different solution, but I figured I would go ahead and post the PowerShell script that I came up with.

CREATE TABLE #JobsRun (	ServerName nvarchar(128),
											Job_Name nvarchar(128),
											Run_Date datetime,
											Job_Duration time(7),
											Run_Status varchar(50),
											Sample_Date datetime
										  );
					insert into #JobsRun
					select	@@SERVERNAME AS ServerName
							,j.name Job_Name
							,(msdb.dbo.agent_datetime(jh.run_date,jh.run_time)) As Run_Date
							,substring(cast(run_duration + 1000000 as varchar(7)),2,2) + ':' +
									substring(cast(run_duration + 1000000 as varchar(7)),4,2) + ':' +
									substring(cast(run_duration + 1000000 as varchar(7)),6,2) Job_Duration
							,case when run_status = 0
										then 'Failed'
								when run_status = 1
										then 'Succeed'
								when run_status = 2
										then 'Retry'
								when run_status = 3
										then 'Cancel'
								when run_status = 4
										then 'In Progress'
							end as Run_Status
							,GETDATE() As Sample_Date
					FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory jh
						join msdb.dbo.sysjobs j
							on jh.job_id = j.job_id
					where	step_id = 0
					and		enabled = 1
					order by cast(cast(run_date as char) + ' ' +
								substring(cast(run_time + 1000000 as varchar(7)),2,2) + ':' +
								substring(cast(run_time + 1000000 as varchar(7)),4,2) + ':' +
								substring(cast(run_time + 1000000 as varchar(7)),6,2)  as datetime) desc

					delete from MgtServer.DBA_Console.dbo.LastJobStatus where ServerName = '$server'                       -- Change 'MgtServer' to the name of whatever the SQL Server is in
                                                                                                                                               -- your env that will house the LastJobStatus table which stores the
                                                                                                                                               -- results of this script
					insert into MgtServer.DBA_Console.dbo.LastJobStatus (ServerName, Job_Name, Run_Date, Job_Duration, Run_Status, Sample_Date)
					select	jr.ServerName,
							jr.Job_Name,
							jr.Run_Date,
							jr.Job_Duration,
							jr.Run_Status,
							jr.Sample_Date
					from	#JobsRun jr
					where	Run_Date = (	select	max(jr1.Run_Date)
											from	#JobsRun jr1
											where	jr1.Job_Name = jr.Job_Name)
					drop table #JobsRun

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