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Actual exam question from Microsoft's 70-764

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You are examining information about users, sessions, and processed in an on-premises Microsoft SQL Server Database Engine instance.
You need to return information about processes that are not idle, that belong to a specific user, or that belong to a specific session.
What should you use?

A. Activity Monitor
B. sp_who3
C. SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS) Object Explorer
D. SQL Server Data Collector
E. SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT)
F. SQL Server Configuration Manager

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Suggested Answer: B 🗳️
Use sp_who3 to first view the current system load and to identify a session of interest. You should execute the query several times to identify which session id is most consuming teh system resources.

Parameters -
sp_who3 null - who is active;
sp_who3 1 or 'memory' - who is consuming the memory;
sp_who3 2 or 'cpu' - who has cached plans that consumed the most cumulative CPU (top 10); sp_who3 3 or 'count' - who is connected and how many sessions it has; sp_who3 4 or 'idle' - who is idle that has open transactions; sp_who3 5 or 'tempdb' - who is running tasks that use tempdb (top 5); and, sp_who3 6 or 'block' - who is blocking.

by DS at July 30, 2019, 11:41 a.m.

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Chandra111

4 years, 4 months ago

Correct Answer is SP_WHO2 or Select * from sys.sysprocesses where spid > 52.as per above answers, Activity Monitor is coorect.

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rohithravindran

4 years, 9 months ago

its B : sp_who3

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KC

4 years, 10 months ago

It's almost word for word for MSSQL 2016: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/system-stored-procedures/sp-who-transact-sql?view=sql-server-2016

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CommanderBigMac

4 years, 10 months ago

Can't find much info on sp_who3, but even if it is indeed depricated in newer versions of sql, the exam is based on sql2016, thus sp_who3 would have to be the answer in this instance, even if it is no longer in use in newer versions.

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flashed

5 years, 3 months ago

I'm using SQL SMS 18 and i'm getting the following error: Msg 2812, Level 16, State 62, Line 1 Could not find stored procedure 'sp_who3'. This sp is deprecated... Answer should be A.

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MSSucks

5 years, 4 months ago

I also think "Activity Monitor" is correct. Because sp_who3 is no SQL Server integrated Stored Procedure but external code that need to be downloaded from GitHub.

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rodgon

5 years, 4 months ago

I think the same. "activity monitor must be the correct answer because sp_who3 doesn't exists anymore"

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mrn0107

5 years, 5 months ago

Can someone put a link about sp_who3 as Microsoft documetation. I can not find it anywhere. sp_who i sp_who2 can be correct answer, but sp_who3 is wrong.

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