finding active users from sysprocesses

[kr]

I am trying to find a select on sysprocesses that would list all the active
logins. An active login is a login that has a TSQL statment being executed
on the server,

This didnt work to well! Any ideas. Thanks in advance.

select sp.loginame,
-- more columns
from master..sysprocesses sp
where sp.status not in ('sleeping','background' )
order by 1

[Anith Sen]

You can use the system stored procedure sp_who & sp_who2 for these purposes.

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[Erland Sommarskog]

kr (zzb26 (at) email.com) writes:

I am trying to find a select on sysprocesses that would list all the
active logins. An active login is a login that has a TSQL statment being
executed on the server,

This didnt work to well! Any ideas. Thanks in advance.

select sp.loginame,
-- more columns
from master..sysprocesses sp
where sp.status not in ('sleeping','background' )
order by 1

In which way did it not work? In any case, you definitely want to add
"or opentrn > 0". A process which has a open transaction is active,
even if it is sleeping.

I have a lock-monitoring routine, and the condition I use is

upper(p.cmd) <> 'AWAITING COMMAND'

I also check whether sysprocesses.blocked > 0.

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