One of the frustrating aspects of SQL Server is the lack of progress indicators. One such command falling into this pit is CreateIndex. However, this is a great link for a solution; http://sqlblog.com/blogs/michael_zilberstein/archive/2013/10/21/51415.aspx
Step 1 – Before you run the following query make sure you have ‘include actual execution plan’ option set in query analyser. If you don’t have this, or similar, then the DMV won’t produce any results.
Step 2 – Select @@SPID
Step 3 – run your Create Index in the same query window as step 2
Step 4 – Create a new query with the following SQL, replace the SPID in the first line with that from step (2)
DECLARE @SPID INT = 51;
;WITH agg AS
(
SELECT SUM(qp.[row_count]) AS [RowsProcessed],
SUM(qp.[estimate_row_count]) AS [TotalRows],
MAX(qp.last_active_time) – MIN(qp.first_active_time) AS [ElapsedMS],
MAX(IIF(qp.[close_time] = 0 AND qp.[first_row_time] > 0,
[physical_operator_name],
N'<Transition>’)) AS [CurrentStep]
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_profiles qp
WHERE qp.[physical_operator_name] IN (N’Table Scan’, N’Clustered Index Scan’, N’Sort’)
AND qp.[session_id] = @SPID
), comp AS
(
SELECT *,
([TotalRows] – [RowsProcessed]) AS [RowsLeft],
([ElapsedMS] / 1000.0) AS [ElapsedSeconds]
FROM agg
)
SELECT [CurrentStep],
[TotalRows],
[RowsProcessed],
[RowsLeft],
CONVERT(DECIMAL(5, 2),
(([RowsProcessed] * 1.0) / [TotalRows]) * 100) AS [PercentComplete],
[ElapsedSeconds],
(([ElapsedSeconds] / [RowsProcessed]) * [RowsLeft]) AS [EstimatedSecondsLeft],
DATEADD(SECOND,
(([ElapsedSeconds] / [RowsProcessed]) * [RowsLeft]),
GETDATE()) AS [EstimatedCompletionTime]
FROM comp;
(
SELECT SUM(qp.[row_count]) AS [RowsProcessed],
SUM(qp.[estimate_row_count]) AS [TotalRows],
MAX(qp.last_active_time) – MIN(qp.first_active_time) AS [ElapsedMS],
MAX(IIF(qp.[close_time] = 0 AND qp.[first_row_time] > 0,
[physical_operator_name],
N'<Transition>’)) AS [CurrentStep]
FROM sys.dm_exec_query_profiles qp
WHERE qp.[physical_operator_name] IN (N’Table Scan’, N’Clustered Index Scan’, N’Sort’)
AND qp.[session_id] = @SPID
), comp AS
(
SELECT *,
([TotalRows] – [RowsProcessed]) AS [RowsLeft],
([ElapsedMS] / 1000.0) AS [ElapsedSeconds]
FROM agg
)
SELECT [CurrentStep],
[TotalRows],
[RowsProcessed],
[RowsLeft],
CONVERT(DECIMAL(5, 2),
(([RowsProcessed] * 1.0) / [TotalRows]) * 100) AS [PercentComplete],
[ElapsedSeconds],
(([ElapsedSeconds] / [RowsProcessed]) * [RowsLeft]) AS [EstimatedSecondsLeft],
DATEADD(SECOND,
(([ElapsedSeconds] / [RowsProcessed]) * [RowsLeft]),
GETDATE()) AS [EstimatedCompletionTime]
FROM comp;
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