Aborting a stored procedure?

[codefragment@googlemail.com]

Hi
Is there any way of aborting a stored procedure? I'd want to do this
from c# using async connections but if its possible from query
analyser I'd like to know.
How does the stop button work in query analyser?

thanks

[Erland Sommarskog]

Re: Aborting a stored procedure?

(codefragment@g ooglemail.com) writes:

Is there any way of aborting a stored procedure? I'd want to do this
from c# using async connections but if its possible from query
analyser I'd like to know.
How does the stop button work in query analyser?

It sends an attention signal to SQL Server.

I would guess that method to use in C# is the SqlCommand.Canc el method.


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[codefragment@googlemail.com]

Re: Aborting a stored procedure?

which brought me to this article, thanks for the help, didn't know
that.

http://blogs.msdn.com/khen1234/archive/2005/10/20/483015.aspx

[joeNOSPAM@BEA.com]

Re: Aborting a stored procedure?

On Nov 5, 2:03 am, "codefragm...@g ooglemail.com"
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which brought me to this article, thanks for the help, didn't know
that.
>
http://blogs.msdn.com/khen1234/archi...20/483015.aspx

Bear in mind that the speed with which the DBMS responds to the
cancel signal is indeterminate. The DBMS architecture is a non-
preemptive
threading model, so for the most part, the executing thread itself
decides
when it's going to check for any external messages, such as the rare
cancel.
If it's making good progress and not needing to wait for I/O, a user
thread
may often complete before ever discovering it got a cancel signal.
Back
in my C client days I ran an experiment where I sent a long list of
individual
update statements, each inserting into a table. I sent these all in a
single
SQL string to the DBMS, and *immediately after sending the string* I
sent
a cancel. I was then able to determine how many of the rows got
inserted
before the cancel got heeded. I remember getting 472 inserts completed
out of a 500-line batch.
Joe Weinstein at Oracle

[codefragment@googlemail.com]

Re: Aborting a stored procedure?

I remember getting 472 inserts completed out of a 500-line batch.

Joe Weinstein at Oracle

I gather that its, if not flaky, unpredictable in what it does. Nice
to know though.

[Dan Guzman]

Re: Aborting a stored procedure?

A word of caution regarding cancelling a proc: if the proc includes an
explicit transaction, the transaction will remain open after the cancel
(unless XACT_ABORT is ON). One method to address this is to execute the
following after the cancel:

IF @@TRANCOUNT 0 ROLLBACK

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Hope this helps.

Dan Guzman
SQL Server MVP

http://weblogs.sqlteam.com/dang/

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>I remember getting 472 inserts completed out of a 500-line batch.
>Joe Weinstein at Oracle

>
I gather that its, if not flaky, unpredictable in what it does. Nice
to know though.
>