Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – SQL Server Start Time http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/06/17/sql-server-2008-sql-server-start-time/ Personal Notes of Pinal Dave Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:31:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Esteban Garcia http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/06/17/sql-server-2008-sql-server-start-time/#comment-41396 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:06:23 +0000 http://sqlauthority.wordpress.com/?p=650#comment-41396 You can also get the start date by looking at master.sysprocesses and getting the first connection initiated by sql server:

SELECT login_time FROM sysprocesses WHERE spid = 1

]]> By: Simon Worth http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2008/06/17/sql-server-2008-sql-server-start-time/#comment-39560 Fri, 27 Jun 2008 17:59:07 +0000 http://sqlauthority.wordpress.com/?p=650#comment-39560 In previous versions of SQL Server (I think as low as 7) you could use the following query

select crdate from master..sysdatabases where name=’tempdb’

This works because tempdb is recreated when the server starts. It’s create date should be very close to the time the server started.

If I run the query against the DMV to get the start time of the server on 2008 as well as the query for create time on tempdb, my results are only off by 2 seconds.

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