Get date of last successful job run?

Question

I have a single step job that executes a stored procedure. I would like get the date of the last successful job execution time so that I can just update a delta instead of the w

Answer 1

The tables you want are sysjobs and sysjobhistory in msdb. Although be warned! SQL Server only maintains a certain number of records, so if there are too many jobs and the history is not large enough, you will end up with no history.

The following code retrieves the job_id for the given job name, and queries the history table for the last successfully finished run (i.e. step 0, status 1). As you can see, you have to convert the run time back to a date, as SQL Server stores it in two int columns:

DECLARE @job_id binary(16)
SELECT @job_id = job_id FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobs WHERE (name = N'YourJobName')

SELECT TOP 1
    CONVERT(DATETIME, RTRIM(run_date))
    + ((run_time / 10000 * 3600) 
    + ((run_time % 10000) / 100 * 60) 
    + (run_time % 10000) % 100) / (86399.9964) AS run_datetime
    , *
FROM
    msdb..sysjobhistory sjh
WHERE
    sjh.step_id = 0 
    AND sjh.run_status = 1 
    AND sjh.job_id = @job_id
ORDER BY
    run_datetime DESC