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  • July 1, 2003 at 10:27 am

    #59069

    Whats the best way to differenciate a system process and a user process running on a server at the same time with different spid's. The sysprocesses table doesnt clearly say if a uid is sytem related or user related. Is there any other way? any help will be greatly appreciated

  • July 1, 2003 at 11:27 am

    #463812

    SPID from 1 to 6 are system process. Handler, Lock monitor, Log writer, Lazy writer and Check point

    Shas3

  • July 2, 2003 at 5:30 am

    #463899

    This may depend on what version of SQL Server you are using. On SQL2000, spids 1-50 are reserved for system processes.

    Having said that, I've just looked on a server here and spid 51 is being used by SQL Agent. Not sure whether you would consider that a system process.

    Perhaps you can use the dbid from the sysprocesses table (dbname in sp_who2) to identify processes running against user databases

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