Query SQL Server Job Tables

Bradley Schacht

Bradley Schacht is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, FL. Bradley is a former consultant, trainer, and has coauthored 6 SQL Server and Power BI books, most recently Learn Microsoft Fabric. As a member of the Microsoft Fabric product team, Bradley works directly with customers to solve some of their most complex data problems and helps shape the future of Microsoft Fabric. Bradley gives back to the community through speaking at events such as the SQLBits, Fabric Community Conference, PASS Community Data Summit, SQL Saturdays, Code Camps, and user groups across the country including locally at the Jacksonville SQL Server User Group (JSSUG). He is a contributor on SQLServerCentral.com and blogs on his personal site, BradleySchacht.com.

Bradley Schacht is a Principal Program Manager on the Microsoft Fabric product team based in Saint Augustine, FL.

If you have ever wanted to query the SQL Server job tables then you know they are a little cryptic. The following query will assist you in getting some useful information out of those tables. I recently wanted to be able to query these tables and get the error for when there was a failure during the running of the job. This can be accomplished using this query and just adding another couple of fields. You can add the job history (jh alias in this query) sql_severity and message columns. Then you can simply do a where statement to search the message column for a particular error or for particular keywords that pertain to errors, such as something novel like "error"!! Hope this helps. You can also get some useful information from the table msdb..jobactivity. SELECT CONVERT(DATETIME, RTRIM(jh.run_date)) + (jh.run_time * 9 + jh.run_time % 10000 * 6 + jh.run_time % 100 * 10) / 216e4 AS RunDateTime, j.name AS JobName, jh.step_id AS StepID, SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(varchar(6), jh.run_duration), 6), 1, 2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(varchar(6), jh.run_duration), 6), 3, 2) + ':' + SUBSTRING(RIGHT('000000' + CONVERT(varchar(6), jh.run_duration), 6), 5, 2) AS StepRunTime, jh.step_name AS StepName FROM msdb..sysjobhistory jh INNER JOIN msdb..sysjobs j ON jh.job_id = j.job_id ORDER BY jh.run_date, jh.run_time, j.job_id, jh.step_id

Query SQL Server Job Tables

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