SQL Server: Filter output of sp_who2

You could try something like

DECLARE @Table TABLE(
        SPID INT,
        Status VARCHAR(MAX),
        LOGIN VARCHAR(MAX),
        HostName VARCHAR(MAX),
        BlkBy VARCHAR(MAX),
        DBName VARCHAR(MAX),
        Command VARCHAR(MAX),
        CPUTime INT,
        DiskIO INT,
        LastBatch VARCHAR(MAX),
        ProgramName VARCHAR(MAX),
        SPID_1 INT,
        REQUESTID INT
)

INSERT INTO @Table EXEC sp_who2

SELECT  *
FROM    @Table
WHERE ....

And filter on what you require.

One way is to create a temp table:

CREATE TABLE #sp_who2 
(
   SPID INT,  
   Status VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   Login SYSNAME NULL,  
   HostName SYSNAME NULL,  
   BlkBy SYSNAME NULL,  
   DBName SYSNAME NULL,  
   Command VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   CPUTime INT NULL,  
   DiskIO INT NULL,  
   LastBatch VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   ProgramName VARCHAR(1000) NULL,  
   SPID2 INT
) 
GO

INSERT INTO #sp_who2
EXEC sp_who2
GO

SELECT *
FROM #sp_who2
WHERE Login = 'bla'
GO

DROP TABLE #sp_who2
GO

There's quite a few good sp_who3 user stored procedures out there - I'm sure Adam Machanic did a really good one, AFAIK.

Adam calls it Who Is Active: http://whoisactive.com

Yes, by capturing the output of sp_who2 into a table and then selecting from the table, but that would be a bad way of doing it. First, because sp_who2, despite its popularity, its an undocumented procedure and you shouldn't rely on undocumented procedures. Second because all sp_who2 can do, and much more, can be obtained from sys.dm_exec_requests and other DMVs, and show can be filtered, ordered, joined and all the other goodies that come with queriable rowsets.

I made an improvement in order to obtain not only the blocked processes but also the blocking process:

DECLARE @Table TABLE
    (
    SPID INT, Status VARCHAR(MAX), LOGIN VARCHAR(MAX), HostName VARCHAR(MAX), BlkBy VARCHAR(MAX), DBName VARCHAR(MAX), Command VARCHAR(MAX), CPUTime INT, DiskIO INT, LastBatch VARCHAR(MAX), ProgramName VARCHAR(MAX), SPID_1 INT, REQUESTID INT
    )

INSERT INTO @Table EXEC sp_who2

SELECT  *
FROM    @Table
WHERE
    BlkBy not like '  .'
    or
    SPID in (SELECT  BlkBy from @Table where BlkBy not like '  .')

delete from @Table

I am writing here for future use of my own. It uses sp_who2 and insert into table variable instead of temp table because Temp table cannot be used twice if you do not drop it. And shows blocked and blocker at the same line.

--blocked: waiting becaused blocked by blocker
--blocker: caused blocking
declare @sp_who2 table(
    SPID int,
    Status varchar(max),
    Login varchar(max),
    HostName varchar(max),
    BlkBy varchar(max),
    DBName varchar(max),
    Command varchar(max),
    CPUTime int,
    DiskIO int,
    LastBatch varchar(max),
    ProgramName varchar(max),
    SPID_2 int,
    REQUESTID int
)
insert into @sp_who2 exec sp_who2
select  w.SPID blocked_spid, w.BlkBy blocker_spid, tblocked.text blocked_text, tblocker.text blocker_text
from    @sp_who2 w
        inner join sys.sysprocesses pblocked on w.SPID = pblocked.spid
        cross apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text(pblocked.sql_handle) tblocked
        inner join sys.sysprocesses pblocker on case when w.BlkBy = '  .' then 0 else cast(w.BlkBy as int) end = pblocker.spid
        cross apply sys.dm_exec_sql_text(pblocker.sql_handle) tblocker
where   pblocked.Status = 'SUSPENDED'