How to Find the SQL Server Instance Startup Time

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How to Find the SQL Server Instance Startup Time

Nisarg Upadhyay

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May 12, 2023 at 12:00 am

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Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1003853 More actions · Answer 1

Nicely written, Nisarg . And the annotations in the screen shots are helpful and also nicely done.

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thierry.vandurme Hall of Fame Points: 3340 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks, very useful info! Just a small remark about finding the start time in the ERRORLOG. The log may have been re-initialized so the current log file might not include the message 'ready for client connections'. Depending on how long it's been running and the number of log rollovers you may not be able to find that message in any of the ERRORLOG files.

Maybe it's better to search for a message like 'This instance of SQL Server has been using a process ID of <pid> since <sql start time>' (not sure if this is applicable to all version though)

RPSQL Hall of Fame Points: 3229 More actions · Answer 3

Also, Below is a great T-SQL script to find startup time for SQL server, SQL Server agent and windows server.

-- ============================================================= --

-- Get OS, SQL Server, SQL Agent Restart times

select

@@SERVERNAME AS Instance_Name,

[OS Start Time] = convert(varchar(23),b.OS_Start,121),

[SQL Server Start Time] = convert(varchar(23),a.SQL_Start,121),

[SQL Agent Start Time] = convert(varchar(23),a.Agent_Start,121),

[OS Uptime] =

convert(varchar(15),

right(10000000+datediff(dd,0,getdate()-b.OS_Start),4)+' '+

convert(varchar(20),getdate()-b.OS_Start,108)),

[SQL Uptime] =

convert(varchar(15),

right(10000000+datediff(dd,0,getdate()-a.SQL_Start),4)+' '+

convert(varchar(20),getdate()-a.SQL_Start,108)) ,

[Agent Uptime] =

convert(varchar(15),

right(10000000+datediff(dd,0,getdate()-a.Agent_Start),4)+' '+

convert(varchar(20),getdate()-a.Agent_Start,108))

from

(

Select

SQL_Start = min(aa.login_time),

Agent_Start =

nullif(min(case when aa.program_name like 'SQLAgent %' then aa.login_time else '99990101' end),

convert(datetime,'99990101'))

from

master.dbo.sysprocesses aa

where

aa.login_time > '20000101'

) a

cross join

(

select

OS_Start = dateadd(ss,bb.[ms_ticks]/-1000,getdate())

from

sys.[dm_os_sys_info] bb

) b

-- ------------------------------------------------------------- --