What, When, Where, How, Who2

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Roy Ernest (6/14/2010)
Hey Jason,
Good Job there. I already have this version running in QA right now. 🙂

Thanks Roy.

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Trey Staker (6/14/2010)
Nice article Jason! I haven't tested the code yet but can't wait to have a chance to do this. You did a really thorough job.

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dma-669038 SSCrazy Points: 2773 More actions · Answer 3

Very nice article Jason. I must try the code, it looks neat. I would also recommend to anyone Adam Machanic's sp_whoisactive, we use that extensively. Thanks.

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dma-669038 (6/14/2010)
Very nice article Jason. I must try the code, it looks neat. I would also recommend to anyone Adam Machanic's sp_whoisactive, we use that extensively. Thanks.

For reference, the URL for that is: http://tinyurl.com/WhoIsActive

Seems the author of this article uses it too, since he has copied my XML technique (with no attribution, and not as well as I've done, I won't hesitate to add :-P)

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Adam Machanic (6/14/2010)
dma-669038 (6/14/2010)
Very nice article Jason. I must try the code, it looks neat. I would also recommend to anyone Adam Machanic's sp_whoisactive, we use that extensively. Thanks.
For reference, the URL for that is: http://tinyurl.com/WhoIsActive
Seems the author of this article uses it too, since he has copied my XML technique (with no attribution, and not as well as I've done, I won't hesitate to add :-P)

ermmm, nope didn't get it from WhoIsActive. However, I do like your code too. I guess I will have to look even closer at your proc.

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dma-669038 (6/14/2010)
Very nice article Jason. I must try the code, it looks neat. I would also recommend to anyone Adam Machanic's sp_whoisactive, we use that extensively. Thanks.

Thanks.

Yes - he has a very efficient and much more robust proc than my little thing.

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Paul White SSC Guru Points: 150467 More actions · Answer 7

5 stars from me. You obviously put a lot of work into this, and it shows.

Loved the screenshot from 6.5 - took me way back. Simpler times.

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Paul White NZ (6/15/2010)
5 stars from me. You obviously put a lot of work into this, and it shows.
Loved the screenshot from 6.5 - took me way back. Simpler times.

Thanks. I thought the screenshot was the icing. It seemed the most convincing way to show the existence of who2 way back when.

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John Cuthbertson SSC Enthusiast Points: 104 More actions · Answer 9

Jason

And I complain to my users when they do not give me enuff info!!

SQl Level is 9.0.4273

René Scharfe SSC Rookie Points: 48 More actions · Answer 10

Thanks, nice work. Just picking nits:

The final bit about this procedure involves the input parameters. I chose to use TinyInts for these fields to permit a value of 0, 1, or NULL. I catch this in the where clause using case statements.

That's a case for the data type bit (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177603(SQL.90).aspx). You can then use ISNULL or COALESCE when checking their values, that's shorter.

Also, calling the first parameter @ShowSystemProcesses might be more intuitive, as in that case both NULL and 0 would have the same meaning.

eduardo.pin SSC Eights! Points: 996 More actions · Answer 11

It worked, but I got the message:

Msg 6841, Level 16, State 1, Line 7

FOR XML could not serialize the data for node 'processing-instruction(definition)' because it contains a character (0x0000) which is not allowed in XML. To retrieve this data using FOR XML, convert it to binary, varbinary or image data type and use the BINARY BASE64 directive.

Cheers!

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John Cuthbertson (6/15/2010)
Jason
And I complain to my users when they do not give me enuff info!!

😀

SQl Level is 9.0.4273

Thanks -

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Here is something that I found on the FOR XML issue that a few have mentioned:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic853088-149-1.aspx

It seems that it may be related to unicode characters.

I am curious, for those that have this issue, Adam Machanic has a proc that he listed in this thread already. Does his proc handle the FOR XML correctly for you?

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David Lu SSC Eights! Points: 882 More actions · Answer 14

Hi Jason:

It works very well for me. It is in prod now, after running on QA.

It almost covers everything I need to know, just one more:

Is it possible to get the called proc/func parameter value in the QueryText field?:-)

Thanks a lot

David

John Cuthbertson SSC Enthusiast Points: 104 More actions · Answer 15

jason

I isolated the problem thread and it displays Ok with Andrew's code.

<?query --

FETCH API_CURSOR000000000002BC4F

--?>