Last Execution Date Time of a Stored Procedure

Anonymous — Sun, 11 Mar 2012 06:00:00 GMT

On many forums I have found a very basic yet important query - “How can I know when was my Stored Procedure last executed?” And today through this blog I will try to answer this question.

Actually speaking, without explicit logging or tracing, it is not possible to get this information for each and every Stored Procedure of our Database. However, we can get this detail along with many other relevant information for the stored procedure having it’s execution plan currently cached on the server by using - sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats It’s a system dynamic view that returns aggregate performance statistics for cached stored procedures.

The important thing to note is that this view returns one row for each cached stored procedure plan, and the lifetime of the row is as long as the stored procedure remains cached. When a stored procedure is removed from the cache, the corresponding row is eliminated from this view.

So, let’s see a way, using which at least we can find out the some important facts for the cached stored procedures -

     USE DBName

    GO

    SELECT 

      O.name,

      PS.last_execution_time

    FROM 

      sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats PS 

    INNER JOIN sys.objects O 

      ON O.[object_id] = PS.[object_id]

P.S. Please replace the DBName with the actual name of the Database.

The above script will return the name of all the cached stored procedure of the current database with their last execution time.

For more details on this dynamics view, please refer - sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats (Transact-SQL)

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Last Execution Date Time of a Stored Procedure