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Capture long transact query using SQL Server performance condition alert feature

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September 10, 2024 at 8:41 pm

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I created a SQL Alert trying to capture long query transaction under the SQL Server Agent\Agent with the options below. However, it does not have the feature to capture what query is causing the long transaction. I was thinking of adding the sp_WhoisActive to capture the long transaction query but it did not have SQL option to place my query. Any ideas how can I capture the long transaction query syntax and trigger an email to me? Thanks.
Type: SQL Server performance condition alert
Object: Transaction
Counter: Longest Transaction Running Time
Alert if counter value > 300

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135368 More actions · Answer 1

I would go for eXtended Events to capture such information.

could be something like this:

-- Create the event session
CREATE EVENT SESSION DBA_LongRunningQueries ON SERVER
ADD EVENT sqlserver.sql_statement_completed (
    ACTION (sqlserver.sql_text, sqlserver.tsql_stack)
    WHERE sqlserver.sql_statement_completed.duration > 1000 -- Duration in milliseconds
)
ADD TARGET package0.asynchronous_file_target (
    SET filename = 'your_XE_LogPath\DBA_LongRunningQueries.xel'
),
ADD TARGET package0.ring_buffer (
    SET max_memory = 4096
)
WITH (max_dispatch_latency = 1 SECONDS);

-- Start the event session
ALTER EVENT SESSION DBA_LongRunningQueries ON SERVER STATE = START;

-----

-- Query the data 
CREATE TABLE #XeEventData
([event_data_XML]    [XML] NULL, 
[file_name]     [NVARCHAR](260)  NOT NULL, 
[file_offset]   [BIGINT] NOT NULL, 
[timestamp_utc] DATETIME2(7) NOT NULL
);
Insert into #XeEventData
SELECT CONVERT(XML, event_data) AS event_data_XML
, file_name
, file_offset
, timestamp_utc
FROM sys.fn_xe_file_target_read_file(
  'your_XE_LogPath\DBA_LongRunningQueries.xel'
, NULL, NULL, NULL);


SELECT 
event_data_XML.value('(event/action[@name="database_id"]/value)[1]', 'INT') AS database_id,
--event_data_XML.value('(event/action[@name="database_name"]/value)[1]', 'SYSNAME') AS database_name,
event_data_XML.value('(event/@name)[1]', 'VARCHAR(50)') As event_name,
event_data_XML.value('(event/action[@name="session_id"]/value)[1]', 'SMALLINT') AS session_id,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="duration"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS duration,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="cpu_time"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS cpu_time,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="physical_reads"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS physical_reads,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="logical_reads"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS logical_reads,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="writes"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS writes,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="row_count"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS row_count,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="error_number"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS error_number,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="severity"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS error_severity,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="state"]/value)[1]', 'BIGINT') AS error_state,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="message"]/value)[1]', 'VARCHAR(max)') AS error_message,
event_data_XML.value('(event/action[@name="client_app_name"]/value)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)') AS client_app_name,
event_data_XML.value('(event/action[@name="client_hostname"]/value)[1]', 'VARCHAR(128)') AS client_host_name,
isnull(event_data_XML.value('(event/action[@name="username"]/value)[1]', 'SYSNAME'), '??') AS username,
event_data_XML.value('(event/action[@name="sql_text"]/value)[1]', 'VARCHAR(max)') AS sql_text,
event_data_XML.value('(event/data[@name="statement"]/value)[1]', 'VARCHAR(max)') AS statement,
event_data_XML
FROM #XeEventData
;

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Johan Bijnens SSC Guru Points: 135368 More actions · Answer 2

Also keep in mind you can use QueryStore to have query followup.

Interesting with this is you already have reports at hand to help you dig into it all