This is a follow-up post on SQL Server – Check SQL Agent Job History using T-SQL.

SQL Server Agent stores SQL jobs history in sysjobhistory. It has two different columns for date and time, Run_Date and Run_Time. Since this is not available as DATETIME we cannot filter based on certain criteria such as jobs that run in last 24 hours.

There is a system function available in msdb database which takes these two columns as input converts output to a DATETIME data type, dbo.agent_datetime. You can use this function as below:

SELECT        TOP 5

[JobName]     = JOB.name,

       [StepName]    = HIST.step_name,

              [RunDateTime] = dbo.agent_datetime(HIST.run_date,HIST.run_time)

FROM          sysjobs JOB

INNER JOIN    sysjobhistory HIST ON HIST.job_id = JOB.job_id

ORDERBY      HIST.run_date, HIST.run_time

Result Set:

JobName                  StepName                            RunDateTime

syspolicy_purge_history  Verify that automation is enabled.  2013-01-29 02:00:00.000

syspolicy_purge_history  Purge history.                      2013-01-29 02:00:00.000

syspolicy_purge_history  Erase Phantom System Health Records 2013-01-29 02:00:00.000

syspolicy_purge_history  (Job outcome)                       2013-01-29 02:00:00.000

syspolicy_purge_history  Verify that automation is enabled.  2013-01-30 02:00:00.000

(5 row(s) affected)

Hope This Helps!

Vishal

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