SQL Server-Determine which query is taking a long time to complete
- by Neil Smith
Cool little trick to determine which sql query which is taking a long time to execute, first while offending query is running from another machine do EXEC sp_who2 Locate the SPID responsible via Login, DBName and ProgramName columns, then do DBCC INPUTBUFFER (<SPID>) The offending query will be in the EventInfo column. This is a great little time saver for me, before I found out about this I used to split my concatenated query script in to multiple sql files until I located the problem query