Showing and Killing SQL Server Processes with PowerShell
Another post in the PowerShell Box of Tricks series. There are much better ways of doing this I admit but as you can do it with PowerShell I created a function to do it.
Create a Server Object and notice that there is a Method named EnumProcesses by piping it to Get-Member and then look at the Properties and Methods of EnumProcesses
Once I had done that then it was easy to create a function to display what is going on. It’s quick and easy. Not as good as sp_WhoIsActive but it displays about the same info as sp_who, sp_who2
You can also find a Method called KillProcess on the Server Property so I asked a Yes/No question using Windows Forms. You can find much more detail on that here
All you need to supply is the spid
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# NAME: Show-SQLProcesses.ps1
# AUTHOR: Rob Sewell http://sqldbawithabeard.com
# DATE:06/08/2013
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# COMMENTS: Load function for Showing Processes on a SQL Server
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Function Show-SQLProcesses ($SQLServer)
{
$server = new-object "Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server" $SQLServer
$Server.EnumProcesses()|Select Spid,BlockingSpid, Login, Host,Status,Program, Command,Database,Cpu,MemUsage |Format-Table -wrap -auto
$OUTPUT= [System.Windows.Forms.MessageBox]::Show("Do you want to Kill a process?" , "Question" , 4)
if ($OUTPUT -eq "YES" )
{
$spid = Read-Host "Which SPID?"
$Server.KillProcess($Spid)
}
else
{
}
}
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