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Backup\ Restore completion Status.

  • May 17, 2010 at 10:14 pm

    #224527

    Comments posted to this topic are about the item Backup\ Restore completion Status.

    Thanks.

  • May 18, 2010 at 2:31 am

    #1168650

    Nice question.

    I answered wrong even after reading BOL. I definitely need to learn more about that dynamic views because they contain a lot of useful stuff.

    Maybe the word "job" is a little bit confusing in the context of the QOTD because in SQL Server it means "specified series of operations performed sequentially by SQL Server Agent".

  • May 18, 2010 at 4:14 am

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    vk-kirov (5/18/2010)

    Maybe the word "job" is a little bit confusing in the context of the QOTD because in SQL Server it means "specified series of operations performed sequentially by SQL Server Agent".

    I agree, the right word is BATCH.

  • May 18, 2010 at 4:27 am

    #1168696

    confused...

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  • May 18, 2010 at 6:12 am

    #1168742

    Once a job completes (100%), it no longer appears in the dmv right? Am I correct in understanding that the DMV only shows currently executing requests?

    Thanks

  • May 18, 2010 at 6:27 am

    #1168752

    I got it right but since when is a Dynamic Management View a table?

  • May 18, 2010 at 6:43 am

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    gary.mazzone (5/18/2010)

    I got it right but since when is a Dynamic Management View a table?

    I agree with you Gary... it's a view (albeit into a system table).

    And with Carlo also... it's a "batch", not a job.

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  • May 18, 2010 at 7:31 am

    #1168808

    Which table helps to find the completion status of the job(e.g, backup, restore etc..) in SQL Server 2005?

    :discuss:Unfortunately I believe that none of the answers are correct for this question. The answers refer to batches, and use DMV's. The answer to your question would be to read the message field in the sysjobhistory table in msdb in order to get the status of the job. Also, these batch statuses are not in the tables used by the DMV for long making it difficult to get the completion status, unless the absence of an entry equals the completion but that does not tell you if the completion is a success or failure. But you can get the percentage of completion.

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  • May 18, 2010 at 8:23 am

    #1168847

    Changed it to a DMV from a table. We generically seem to use "table" for system tables, views, and DMVs, which isn't correct.

    The question has been edited to say "batch" as well.

  • May 18, 2010 at 8:51 am

    #1168876

    This is a very good question, thank you. I answered it correctly, but only because I knew that neither option 1 nor 3 is correct. This only left option 2 as a single available choice. It is good to start the day by learning something new from the QotD.

    Oleg

  • May 18, 2010 at 9:29 am

    #1168894

    Thanks Steve for changing the original question. I use this all the time to figure out how far along a backup or restore is.

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  • May 18, 2010 at 12:53 pm

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    dgabele (5/18/2010)

    Once a job completes (100%), it no longer appears in the dmv right? Am I correct in understanding that the DMV only shows currently executing requests?

    Thanks

    I think had the same confusion. I read the question as to check the completion status of the backup after it had completed. Not as an ongoing monitoring of the progress of the task.

  • May 19, 2010 at 12:26 am

    #1169240

    Yes, it is good question but where and how we can use this? Anybody can explain with an example?

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  • May 19, 2010 at 1:48 am

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    Kari Suresh (5/19/2010)

    where and how we can use this? Anybody can explain with an example?

    For example, it may be very useful when a big transaction rolls back and you want to know the progress status of the rollback.

    Here is a simple example. First of all, let's create a table and fill it with the data (it took 5 minutes on my local machine, and 1800 MB on the hard drive (800 MB for the data file and 1000 MB for the log file)).

    SET NOCOUNT ON

    GO

    CREATE TABLE RollbackTest (a CHAR(8000))

    GO

    BEGIN TRANSACTION

    GO

    INSERT RollbackTest VALUES ('test')

    GO 100000

    Here we have a huge uncommitted transaction. Let's roll it back (it took 6 minutes on my local machine):

    ROLLBACK TRANSACTION

    We can monitor the rollback progress in another window:

    SELECT percent_complete, *

    FROM sys.dm_exec_requests

    WHERE session_id = <spid of the rollback process>

    Also we can monitor the progress of backups/restores/etc.

    Of course, we can't see the execution progress of queries (such as SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE/etc).

  • May 19, 2010 at 11:05 pm

    #1169864

    Good Question 🙂

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