drikusvd (6/22/2010)
For SQL Server 2008 you can execute the following query to obtain the server start time. This is a lot simpler than running a command line utility.
Well, except that gives you the time the SQL Server started, which isn't necessarily the same as the time the server started. Secondly, that won't work for a server that you might want to monitor that doesn't actually have SQL Server installed on it!