Retrieve SQL Agent Process ID via T-SQL below SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1.

Question

Dear Folks,
I have to retrieve the process ID of SQL Agent (as shown in Configuration Manager) via T-SQL Script. It can be easily retrieved in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 or above using 'sys.dm_server_services'
DMV. But I have to retrieve it in SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM and above DMV was not introduced in it. Using XP_cmdshell 'tasklist' is useless as well, as it doesn't reflect the instance specific details of SQLAgent process. Please Suggest the solution. Thanks in
advance. :)   
Pranshul Gupta

Answer 1

Dear Folks,
I have to retrieve the process ID of SQL Agent (as shown in Configuration Manager) via T-SQL Script. It can be easily retrieved in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 or above using 'sys.dm_exec_request' DMV.
But I have to retrieve it in SQL Server 2008 R2 RTM and above DMV was not introduced in it.
Using XP_cmdshell 'tasklist' is useless as well, as it doesn't reflect the instance specific details of SQLAgent process. Please Suggest the solution. Thanks in advance. :)   
Pranshul Gupta
Hello,
Sys.dm_exec_requests DMV was introduced from sql server 2005.See this link
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms177648(v=sql.90).aspx
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