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

Since sysjobhistory only maintains a certain number of records, I recomend using sysjobactivity, which keeps the last execution "history" of each job and session.

SELECT TOP 1 start_execution_date
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobactivity
WHERE run_requested_date IS NOT NULL
AND job_id = @job_id
ORDER BY session_id DESC;

NOTE: If a Job has not been executed during the life of a session, almost all values will be null.

ALSO there is a system Stored Procedure sp_help_job that returns this information. It accepts job_id, enabled, etc. as parameters to return 1 or more records.