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DBCowboy
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Posted - 2003-05-29 : 13:52:48
While attempting to solve a problem with slow running queries at a particular time of day, we saw the following from an SP_WHO2 run...

COMMAND: NOP
CPUTime: 123474
DiskIO: 4180
LastBatch: 05/29 10:38:00
ProgramName: SQLAgent - TSQL JobStep (Job 0xB999613B7DF38D48AAFE274C1A0E515B : Step 1)
SPID: 558

I'm used to seeing INSERT, SELECT, UPDATE, etc as the COMMAND but I can't find a single reference to "NOP" in BOL or Microsoft's site. I'm guessing it's a system command of some sort... but what is it? I've searched through the procedures called by the job and can't find the word there, so it's not something intentionally introduced that I'm aware of.

I'm just curious, so any speculation would be appreciated.

Jaysen

X002548
Not Just a Number

15586 Posts

Posted - 2003-05-29 : 14:41:29
In other languages it mean No Operation...but I'm not sure here.

Did a quick Google...

Hope these help:

http://www.nextgenss.com/papers/violating_database_security.pdf
http://news.com.com/2100-1001-982284.html



Brett

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