Red Gate Long Running Query

lrobbins

I have a notification of a long running query for a database on one of my servers. When I run a sp_who2 active, the query is still active. Below is the query and it seems to be from Red Gate. When I run this code in a query window, it doesn't take that long to execute. Why is this query running for a long time on this one database?

DECLARE @endtime DATETIME; SET @endtime = GETDATE();
DECLARE @starttime DATETIME; SET @starttime = DATEADD(hh, -1, @endtime);
IF OBJECT_ID('tempdb..#LogEntries') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #LogEntries;
CREATE TABLE #LogEntries ( LogDate DATETIME , ProcessInfo VARCHAR(1000) , LogMessage TEXT ); INSERT INTO #LogEntries
EXEC sys.xp_readerrorlog 0, 1, N'Login', N'failed', @starttime, @endtime;
SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #LogEntries; DROP TABLE #LogEntries;

Brian Donahue

It's trying to read the error log from SQL Server to find out how many login failures there were. The run time of the query depends on how long the error log is and how quick the network is. You can try changing the SQL Server setting that controls how often SQL Server recycles its' error log so there is less to be read.