At Compellotech we were using Sp_GetWhoIsActive for some time now. It’s VERY convenient for activity monitoring. It was created by very bright guy, but it’s too heavy sometimes (might impact a production performance). So from now on we are using newer query which uses DMO views and does not have any impact on the database performance.
-- Currently executing batches, with text and wait info
SELECT dm_tran_locks.request_session_id,
dm_tran_locks.resource_database_id,
DB_NAME(dm_tran_locks.resource_database_id) AS dbname,
CASE
WHEN resource_type = 'OBJECT'
THEN OBJECT_NAME(dm_tran_locks.resource_associated_entity_id)
ELSE OBJECT_NAME(partitions.OBJECT_ID)
END AS ObjectName,
partitions.index_id,
indexes.name AS index_name,
dm_tran_locks.resource_type,
dm_tran_locks.resource_description,
dm_tran_locks.resource_associated_entity_id,
dm_tran_locks.request_mode,
dm_tran_locks.request_status
FROM sys.dm_tran_locks
LEFT JOIN sys.partitions ON partitions.hobt_id = dm_tran_locks.resource_associated_entity_id
LEFT JOIN sys.indexes ON indexes.OBJECT_ID = partitions.OBJECT_ID AND indexes.index_id = partitions.index_id
WHERE resource_associated_entity_id > 0
AND resource_database_id = DB_ID()
ORDER BY request_session_id, resource_associated_entity_id