Determiine if 3 most recent job executions have failed

  • I'm looking for feedback on a query I've devised to return a numeric value if the 3 most recent executions of a job have failed. The purpose of the query is to server as a custom counter alert for Idera SQL DM, and by definition an SQL Script alert must return a numeric value.

    My environment is SQL Server 2008. Please provide feedback if you have a more efficient query for accomplishing the task. Note that the job name is hard coded.

    ;WITH CTE_Restore_JobHistory AS

    (SELECT h.[job_id]

    ,j.[name] as JobName

    ,h.[message]

    ,h.[run_status]

    ,h.[run_date]

    ,h.[run_time]

    ,ROW_NUMBER() OVER(PARTITION BY h.[job_id] ORDER BY h.[run_date], h.[run_time] DESC) AS RowID

    FROM [msdb].[dbo].[sysjobhistory] h

    INNER JOIN [msdb].[dbo].[sysjobs] j

    ON h.[job_id] = j.[job_id]

    WHERE j.[name] = 'LSRestore_205282-SQL1A_BHHCPassportRegistrationLog'

    AND h.[run_status] != 4 -- Exclude jobs that are actively running

    AND h.[step_id] = 0 -- Filter on Job Outcome step

    )

    , CTE_Restore_JobHistory2 AS

    (SELECT *

    FROM CTE_Restore_JobHistory

    WHERE RowID in (1, 2, 3) -- Filter on the 3 most recent job executions

    AND run_status = 0 -- Job has failed

    )

    , CTE_Restore_JobHistory3 AS

    (SELECT [Job_ID], [JobName], COUNT(1) As Failure_Count

    FROM CTE_Restore_JobHistory2

    GROUP BY [Job_ID], [JobName]

    HAVING COUNT(1) = 3

    )

    SELECT COUNT(1)

    FROM CTE_Restore_JobHistory3

    HAVING COUNT(1) > 0

  • I think you need to order run_date DESC also, not just time:

    ORDER BY h.[run_date] DESC, h.[run_time] DESC

    Also, I don't see a need for a separate CTE_Restore_JobHistory2. You can go straight to the last CTE:

    , CTE_Restore_JobHistory2 AS

    (SELECT [Job_ID], [JobName], COUNT(1) As Failure_Count

    FROM CTE_Restore_JobHistory

    WHERE RowID IN (1, 2, 3) -- Filter on the 3 most recent job executions

    AND run_status = 0 -- Job has failed

    GROUP BY [Job_ID], [JobName]

    HAVING COUNT(1) = 3

    )

    SELECT COUNT(1) AS Failure_Count

    FROM CTE_Restore_JobHistory2

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  • Thanks, Scott. That was exactly the type of feedback I was looking for.

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