SQL Server job stop by itself

  • Hi Experts,

    Facing an issue with SQL Server maintenance jobs , all the jobs are failing after running 60-80 mins with below error.

    Error:
    The step was cancelled (stopped) as the result of a stop job request

    There are no other log errors to troubleshoot further , all the SQL jobs are scheduled at different interval. 

    Could you please provide your thoughts/comments to troubleshoot  the issue.

  • Somebody or something has stopped the jobs, either through the GUI or with an sp_stop_job command.  Did this happen just once, or does it happen regularly?

    John

  • It sure sounds like direct intervention by a person. However, do you have a monitoring tool of some kind that has the capacity to interfere with long running jobs?

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  • Thanks for your reply.

    These issues are occurring daily .
    Might be the monitoring tool setting about long running queries is the cause , will investigate on that point.
    I will post the progress.

  • Sounds like a dangerous setting !
    I wrote a query that alerts me if jobs run X% longer than average, but no action is taken, just an email alert.

    "...Might be the monitoring tool setting about long running queries is the cause..."

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