The procedure takes the job name and mins you want to wait as parameters.
The procedure takes the job name and mins you want to wait as parameters.
/****** Object: StoredProcedure [dbo].[sp_start_job_and_wait] Script Date: 06/07/2012 14:38:49 ******/ SET ANSI_NULLS ON GO SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER ON GO CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[sp_start_job_and_wait]( --, @result int output) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- OBJECT NAME: dbo.TBX_pos_import -- AUTHOR: Harsha Majety -- DATE: -- -- INPUTS: @job nvarchar(128), @maxwaitmins int =3 -- OUTPUTS: 1 -> OK -- 0 -> Still running after max mins or error -- DEPENDENCIES: -- -- DESCRIPTION: Job to start a job and wait till it finishes -- -- OTHER: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ) AS BEGIN set NOCOUNT ON; set XACT_ABORT ON; BEGIN TRY declare @running as int declare @seccount as int declare @maxseccount as int declare @start_job as bigint declare @run_status as int set @start_job = cast(convert(varchar, getdate(), 112) as bigint) * 1000000 + datepart(hour, getdate()) * 10000 + datepart(minute, getdate()) * 100 + datepart(second, getdate()) set @maxseccount = 60*@maxwaitmins set @seccount = 0 set @running = 0 declare @job_owner sysname declare @job_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER set @job_owner = SUSER_SNAME() -- get job id select @job_id=job_id from msdb.dbo.sysjobs sj where sj.name=@job -- invalid job name then exit with an error if @job_id is null RAISERROR (N'Unknown job: %s.', 16, 1, @job) -- output from stored procedure xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs is captured in the following table declare @xp_results TABLE ( job_id UNIQUEIDENTIFIER NOT NULL, last_run_date INT NOT NULL, last_run_time INT NOT NULL, next_run_date INT NOT NULL, next_run_time INT NOT NULL, next_run_schedule_id INT NOT NULL, requested_to_run INT NOT NULL, -- BOOL request_source INT NOT NULL, request_source_id sysname COLLATE database_default NULL, running INT NOT NULL, -- BOOL current_step INT NOT NULL, current_retry_attempt INT NOT NULL, job_state INT NOT NULL) -- start the job declare @r as int exec @r = msdb..sp_start_job @job -- quit if unable to start if @r<>0 RAISERROR (N'Could not start job: %s.', 16, 2, @job) -- start with an initial delay to allow the job to appear in the job list (maybe I am missing something ?) WAITFOR DELAY '0:0:01'; set @seccount = 1 -- check job run state insert into @xp_results execute master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs 1, @job_owner, @job_id set @running= (SELECT top 1 running from @xp_results) while @running<>0 and @seccount < @maxseccount begin WAITFOR DELAY '0:0:01'; set @seccount = @seccount + 1 delete from @xp_results insert into @xp_results execute master.dbo.xp_sqlagent_enum_jobs 1, @job_owner, @job_id set @running= (SELECT top 1 running from @xp_results) end -- result: not ok (=1) if still running if @running <> 0 begin -- still running return 0 end else begin -- did it finish ok ? set @run_status = 0 select @run_status=run_status from msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory where job_id=@job_id and cast(run_date as bigint) * 1000000 + run_time >= @start_job if @run_status=1 return 1 --finished ok else --error RAISERROR (N'job %s did not finish successfully.', 16, 2, @job) end END TRY BEGIN CATCH DECLARE @ErrorMessage NVARCHAR(4000), @ErrorNumber INT, @ErrorSeverity INT, @ErrorState INT, @ErrorLine INT, @ErrorProcedure NVARCHAR(200); SELECT @ErrorNumber = ERROR_NUMBER(), @ErrorSeverity = ERROR_SEVERITY(), @ErrorState = ERROR_STATE(), @ErrorLine = ERROR_LINE(), @ErrorProcedure = ISNULL(ERROR_PROCEDURE(), '-'); SELECT @ErrorMessage = N'Error %d, Level %d, State %d, Procedure %s, Line %d, ' + 'Message: '+ ERROR_MESSAGE(); RAISERROR ( @ErrorMessage, @ErrorSeverity, 1, @ErrorNumber, -- original error number. @ErrorSeverity, -- original error severity. @ErrorState, -- original error state. @ErrorProcedure, -- original error procedure name. @ErrorLine -- original error line number. ); END CATCH end