/* Author: Jason Brimhall Original link: http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/sqlrnnr/2016/12/23/what-agent-job-is-running-back-to-basics/ */ SELECT p.session_id,p.program_name ,j.name AS JobName, js.step_name, j.description, js.step_id , st.Query AS JobCommand , js.subsystem FROM sys.dm_exec_sessions p INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs j ON j.job_id = CONVERT(UNIQUEIDENTIFIER, CONVERT(BINARY(16), SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX('(', p.program_name) + 5, CHARINDEX(':', p.program_name) - CHARINDEX('(', p.program_name) - 6),1)) INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps js ON j.job_id = js.job_id CROSS APPLY ( SELECT REPLACE ( REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE( REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE( REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE(REPLACE( CONVERT ( NVARCHAR(MAX), N'--' + NCHAR(13) + NCHAR(10) + ist.command + NCHAR(13) + NCHAR(10) + N'--' COLLATE Latin1_General_Bin2 ), NCHAR(31),N'?'),NCHAR(30),N'?'),NCHAR(29),N'?'),NCHAR(28),N'?'),NCHAR(27),N'?'),NCHAR(26),N'?'),NCHAR(25),N'?'),NCHAR(24),N'?'),NCHAR(23),N'?'),NCHAR(22),N'?'), NCHAR(21),N'?'),NCHAR(20),N'?'),NCHAR(19),N'?'),NCHAR(18),N'?'),NCHAR(17),N'?'),NCHAR(16),N'?'),NCHAR(15),N'?'),NCHAR(14),N'?'),NCHAR(12),N'?'), NCHAR(11),N'?'),NCHAR(8),N'?'),NCHAR(7),N'?'),NCHAR(6),N'?'),NCHAR(5),N'?'),NCHAR(4),N'?'),NCHAR(3),N'?'),NCHAR(2),N'?'),NCHAR(1),N'?'), NCHAR(0), N'' ) AS [processing-instruction(query)] FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps AS ist WHERE ist.job_id = j.job_id AND ist.step_id = SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX(')', p.program_name) - 2, 2) FOR XML PATH(''), TYPE ) AS st(Query) WHERE p.program_name LIKE 'SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job%' AND js.step_id = SUBSTRING(p.program_name, CHARINDEX(')', p.program_name) - 2, 2) ;