Sp_who2 -need only active sessions from users which are not the background sessions

Question

Hello,
sp_who2 -need only active sessions from users which are not the background  sessions
Please assist.
Best regards,
Vishal

Answer 1

Its better to use DMV's to view only active sessions from users (spid>50) as mentioned by Shanky.
You can do that using sp_who2 but it requires a bit of programming to list only user sessions.
SELECT
S.SESSION_ID,
S.STATUS,
S.HOST_NAME,
C.CLIENT_NET_ADDRESS,
CASE WHEN S.LOGIN_NAME = S.ORIGINAL_LOGIN_NAME THEN S.LOGIN_NAME ELSE S.LOGIN_NAME END LOGIN_NAME,
S.PROGRAM_NAME,
C.CONNECT_TIME,
S.LOGIN_TIME,
CASE S.TRANSACTION_ISOLATION_LEVEL
WHEN 0 THEN 'UNSPECIFIED'
WHEN 1 THEN 'READUNCOMITTED'
WHEN 2 THEN 'READCOMMITTED'
WHEN 3 THEN 'REPEATABLE'
WHEN 4 THEN 'SERIALIZABLE'
WHEN 5 THEN 'SNAPSHOT'
ELSE CAST(S.TRANSACTION_ISOLATION_LEVEL AS VARCHAR(32))
END AS TRANSACTION_ISOLATION_LEVEL_NAME,
S.LAST_SUCCESSFUL_LOGON,
S.LAST_UNSUCCESSFUL_LOGON,
S.UNSUCCESSFUL_LOGONS,
S.CPU_TIME AS CPU_TIME_MS,
S.MEMORY_USAGE AS MEMORY_USAGE_PAGES,
S.ROW_COUNT,
S.PREV_ERROR,
S.LAST_REQUEST_START_TIME,
S.LAST_REQUEST_END_TIME,
C.NET_TRANSPORT,
C.PROTOCOL_TYPE,
S.LANGUAGE,
S.DATE_FORMAT,
ST.TEXT AS QUERY_TEXT
FROM
SYS.DM_EXEC_SESSIONS S
FULL OUTER JOIN SYS.DM_EXEC_CONNECTIONS C ON C.SESSION_ID = S.SESSION_ID
CROSS APPLY SYS.DM_EXEC_SQL_TEXT(C.MOST_RECENT_SQL_HANDLE) ST
WHERE
S.SESSION_ID IS NULL
OR S.SESSION_ID > 50
ORDER BY
S.SESSION_ID
-Prashanth