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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Long running SQL Agent job


We tried to launch an .exe from SQL Server Agent Job and job keeps on running, it need to be stopped manually.

Steps to troubleshoot
#1. Any program that has windows interaction i.e. opens any type of window e.g. Notepad, ms-paint or excel etc.

#2. So it simply means we can only use console programs and that too without any prompts or wait for input.
Therefore, we can't execute Date or Time (DOS internal command) as they expect input.

Execute the .exe given in job step from command prompt to validate there are no wait for input.

Hope it helps

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