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Who stopped (canceled) my SQL Server Agent Job?

Dear All, in my job (step) history a can see the following statement: ***"Executed as user: XX\\yyyy. The step was cancelled (stopped) as the result of a stop job request."*** Is there a way to find out who stopped this job? Thanks!
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If you view the job history from SSMS in the message it will say 'The job was stopped prior to completion by user xxx.'
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tanglesoft avatar image tanglesoft commented ·
The information is recorded in msdb..sysjobhistory also
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eghetto avatar image eghetto tanglesoft commented ·
Thanks - piece of code?
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select message,* from msdb..sysjobhistory hope it may help to you by www.sqltechi.blogspot.in
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tanglesoft avatar image tanglesoft commented ·
If you execute select
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eghetto avatar image eghetto commented ·
sorry, but the message column just contains "Executed as user: XX\yyyy. The step was cancelled (stopped) as the result of a stop job request." There is no information about the user who canceled the job. Or am I missing something...?
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select top 1 message from msdb.dbo.sysjobs job join msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory history on job.job_id = history.job_id where name = 'YourJobName' order by run_date, run_time desc
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