I have just had a scheduled SQL Server job run for longer than normal, and I could really have done with having set a timeout to stop it after a certain length of time.
I might be being a bit blind on this, but I can't seem to find a way of setting a timeout for a job. Does anyone know the way to do it?
Thanks
We do something like the code below as part of a nightly job processing subsystem - it is more complicated than this actually in reality; for example we are processing multiple interdependent sets of jobs, and read in job names and timeout values from configuration tables - but this captures the idea:
DECLARE @JobToRun NVARCHAR(128) = 'My Agent Job'
DECLARE @dtStart DATETIME = GETDATE(), @dtCurr DATETIME
DECLARE @ExecutionStatus INT, @LastRunOutcome INT, @MaxTimeExceeded BIT = 0
DECLARE @TimeoutMinutes INT = 180
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_start_job @JobToRun
SET @dtCurr = GETDATE()
WHILE 1=1
BEGIN
WAITFOR DELAY '00:00:10'
SELECT @ExecutionStatus=current_execution_status, @LastRunOutcome=last_run_outcome
FROM OPENQUERY(LocalServer, 'set fmtonly off; exec msdb.dbo.sp_help_job') where [name] = @JobToRun
IF @ExecutionStatus <> 4
BEGIN -- job is running or finishing (not idle)
SET @dtCurr=GETDATE()
IF DATEDIFF(mi, @dtStart, @dtCurr) > @TimeoutMinutes
BEGIN
EXEC msdb.dbo.sp_stop_job @job_name=@JobToRun
-- could log info, raise error, send email etc here
END
ELSE
BEGIN
CONTINUE
END
END
IF @LastRunOutcome = 1 -- the job just finished with success flag
BEGIN
-- job succeeded, do whatever is needed here
print 'job succeeded'
END
END