Service start time

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Service start time

Gail Shaw

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December 18, 2006 at 6:31 am

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Is there any way to tell from T-SQL when the sql server service was last started?
If not from T-SQL, then is there way to do it in a CLR function?
Gail Shaw
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John Mitchell-245523 SSC Guru Points: 148809 More actions · Answer 1

Gail

I don't know whether this works in SQL Server 2005, but in 2000 you can insert the result of xp_errorlog into a temp table, then query to find the earliest row. Of course, if your log file is big then it might not be quick.

John

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 2

I thought of that, and it's certainly an option. I'm hoping for a quicker way.

With login failures and backup logs and the like, my error logs often reach a couple megs before they're cycled

Also that require a check to see in the server has been restarted, or if the error log has been cycled.

What we're also considering is a startup procedure that logs the current datetime to a table in master

Gail Shaw
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Cath Trimble SSCarpal Tunnel Points: 4201 More actions · Answer 3

SPID1 is the SQL Server Service, so:

SELECT (datediff(mi, login_time, getdate()))/'1440'

FROM master..sysprocesses WHERE spid = 1

Cath

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734587 More actions · Answer 4

Event Viewer also shows. Not sure of the entry, but you can filter on the service and check on the #.

Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 5

Can you read those from T-SQL? CLR?

Gail Shaw
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Gail Shaw SSC Guru Points: 1004504 More actions · Answer 6

That's brilliant. Thanks. I didn't think of looking there.

Gail Shaw
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