How do I get the user who invoked a SQL Agent job? - sql

Question

I'm working on a job step which needs to reference the Login Name value for the user who started the job. It'll be passed as a value into a table field, which is then referenced by other processes.
I haven't been able to find if or where the starting username is stored in system tables. It must be stored somewhere as the (job outcome) step in msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory references is thusly:
The job succeeded. The Job was invoked by User [domain]\[username]. The last step to run was...
I'd like to capture that [domain]\[username] value for my job step. I know it can be done as a subsequent job, referencing the original and doing some string manipulation, but I'd prefer to do it in the same job, if possible.
Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

That is logged in the message column of the msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory table.
You may want to do some joins to the sysjobs table as well. I.E.
select
j.name as 'JobName',
run_date,
run_time,
msdb.dbo.agent_datetime(run_date, run_time) as 'RunDateTime',
case
when left(h.message,16) = 'Executed as user'
then substring(h.message,19,charindex('.',h.message,1) - 18)
when h.message like '%invoked by%'
then substring(h.message,charindex('invoked by ',h.message) + 11,charindex('.',substring(h.message,charindex('invoked by ',h.message) + 11,99)) - 1)
else h.message
end
From
msdb.dbo.sysjobs j
INNER JOIN
msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory h
ON j.job_id = h.job_id
where
j.enabled = 1 --Only Enabled Jobs
order by
JobName,
RunDateTime desc
REF