Check out this link, it may help:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;Q110352

Andy,

I read up on it some and tried to use a variable marked for output, but couldn't figure out the right code. I tried some example codes, but didn't have...

Hi,

I found the problem. The sp_help_jobstep documentation says that last_run_duration is an int expressed as: "Duration (in seconds) of the step the last time it ran." In reality last_run_duration...

Thanks,

Sounds like a good idea. I'll try it in the coming days and let you know what I find out.

Happy Holidays!

April

It is a ton of work...the reason I was using the sp_help_jobstep is because I actually wanted to get the duration without calculating it (or storing it, since the msdb...