sp_who

  • Hi Experts,

     

    When i execute sp_help at any point of time, I will see the following output.

    Can anybody explain me what it means ?

     

    LAZY WRITER    

    LOG WRITER     

    SIGNAL HANDLER 

    LOCK MONITOR   

    TASK MANAGER   

    TASK MANAGER   

    CHECKPOINT SLEEP

    TASK MANAGER   

    TASK MANAGER   

    TASK MANAGER   

    TASK MANAGER   

    TASK MANAGER   

    TASK MANAGER   

    TASK MANAGER   

    SELECT         

    AWAITING COMMAND

     

     

    Regards

    Karthik

     

    karthik

  • Sorry ,  i am getting the above words in the 'cmd' column.

     

     

    karthik

  • Some of these are system processes (Task Manager, etc.) so there's nothing to do with these. The Awaiting Command ones are usually idle client connections.

  • The SPIDs numbered 1-50 are reserved by SQL Server for internal use, so all user processes will be 51 or higher.

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