job status

Hi,
Is it possible to find out the current status of a job (sql 2000 sql job),
i.e. whether it is idle/running/failed, etc
Thanks in advance!!
Try giving select privilages to msdb..sysjobhistory and msdb..sysjobs
tables.
select name,run_status from msdb..sysjobhistory a,sysjobs b
where a.job_id=b.job_id
and name='name of the job'
explanation for run_status:- You could write a case statement with
run_status with below description.
0 = Failed
1 = Succeeded
2 = Retry
3 = Canceled
4 = In progress
Thanks
Hari
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> Hi,
> Is it possible to find out the current status of a job (sql 2000 sql job),
> i.e. whether it is idle/running/failed, etc
> Thanks in advance!!
>
|||Please have a look at this script:
http://www.replicationanswers.com/Downloads/KillRunningJobs.txt. You can
use -- 1 = Executing, 2 = Waiting For Thread, 3 = Between Retries, 4 = Idle,
5 = Suspended, 6 = [obsolete], 7 = PerformingCompletionActions to modify it
as you like.
Cheers,
Paul Ibison SQL Server MVP, www.replicationanswers.com