The CANCEL JOB statement lets you stop long-running jobs, which include:
IMPORTjobsBACKUPandRESTOREjobs- User-created table statistics jobs
- Automatic table statistics jobs
- Changefeeds
- Scheduled backup jobs
- Schema change jobs (see Known limitations for exceptions)
Known limitations
To avoid transaction states that cannot properly roll back, the following statements cannot be cancelled with
CANCEL JOB:DROPstatements (e.g.,DROP TABLE).ALTER ... RENAMEstatements (e.g.,ALTER TABLE ... RENAME TO).CREATE TABLE ... ASstatements.ALTER TYPEstatements, except for those that drop values.
When an Enterprise
RESTOREis canceled, partially restored data is properly cleaned up. This can have a minor, temporary impact on cluster performance.
Required privileges
To cancel a job, the user must be a member of the admin role or must have the CONTROLJOB role option set. Non-admin users cannot cancel admin users' jobs.
For changefeeds, users with the CHANGEFEED privilege on a set of tables can cancel changefeed jobs running on those tables.
Synopsis
Cancel all jobs by type
Parameters
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
job_id |
The ID of the job you want to cancel, which can be found with SHOW JOBS. |
select_stmt |
A selection query that returns job_id(s) to cancel. |
for_schedules_clause |
The schedule you want to cancel jobs for. You can cancel jobs for a specific schedule (FOR SCHEDULE id) or cancel jobs for multiple schedules by nesting a SELECT clause in the statement (FOR SCHEDULES <select_clause>). See the examples below. |
BACKUP, CHANGEFEED, RESTORE, IMPORT |
The job type to cancel. |
Examples
Cancel a single job
> SHOW JOBS;
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------+...
| id | type | description |...
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------+...
| 27536791415282 | RESTORE | RESTORE db.* FROM 'azure-blob://backup/db/tbl' |...
+----------------+---------+------------------------------------------------+...
> CANCEL JOB 27536791415282;
Cancel multiple jobs
To cancel multiple jobs, nest a SELECT clause that retrieves job_id(s) inside the CANCEL JOBS statement:
> CANCEL JOBS (WITH x AS (SHOW JOBS) SELECT job_id FROM x
WHERE user_name = 'maxroach');
All jobs created by maxroach will be cancelled.
Cancel by job type
To cancel all jobs by the type of job, use the CANCEL ALL {job} JOBS statement. You can cancel all BACKUP, RESTORE, CHANGEFEED, IMPORT jobs using this statement, for example:
CANCEL ALL BACKUP JOBS;
Cancel automatic table statistics jobs
Canceling an automatic table statistics job is not useful since the system will automatically restart the job immediately. To permanently disable automatic table statistics jobs, disable the sql.stats.automatic_collection.enabled cluster setting:
> SET CLUSTER SETTING sql.stats.automatic_collection.enabled = false;
Cancel jobs for a schedule
To cancel jobs for a specific backup schedule, use the schedule's id:
> CANCEL JOBS FOR SCHEDULE 590204387299262465;
CANCEL JOBS FOR SCHEDULES 1
You can also CANCEL multiple schedules by nesting a SELECT clause that retrieves id(s) inside the CANCEL JOBS statement:
> CANCEL JOBS FOR SCHEDULES WITH x AS (SHOW SCHEDULES) SELECT id FROM x WHERE label = 'test_schedule';
CANCEL JOBS FOR SCHEDULES 2
