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How to get the date a web page was published

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This posting is particularly useful for anyone looking to use the date a web page was published as part of academic referencing.

Step 1. In your browser open https://www.google.com/.

Step 2. Copy the url of the web page you want to get a publication date for.

Step 3. Paste this url into the search bar of the google.com page and search. The search should return a series of results.

Step 4. In the address bar of the results page go to the very end of the url text and paste &as_qdr=y15 and hit return.

This should update the results page with each link including a publication date.

How to lookup SQL Server Jobs and get the job history with a query

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Sometimes job history just won’t load in SQL Server Management Studio for one reason or another. One of the main reasons is that there are too many entries in the sysjobhistory table. The article here will help you resolve that problem. For a more immediate answer to the data you are looking for, like most things with SSMS, you can query the tables that contain this data directly.

For a permanent solution to bypassing SSMS I recommend using this stored procedure. If you just want a quick query see below.

If you want to get a job history for everything that has run over the last 7 days you can run the query below. Simply change the 7 to another number to go further back in time by days.

-- Variable Declarations 
DECLARE @PreviousDate DATETIME
DECLARE @Year VARCHAR(4)
DECLARE @Month VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @MonthPre VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @Day VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @DayPre VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @FinalDate INT


-- Initialize Variables 
SET @PreviousDate = DATEADD(dd, - 7, GETDATE()) -- Last 7 days  
SET @Year = DATEPART(yyyy, @PreviousDate)

SELECT @MonthPre = CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), DATEPART(mm, @PreviousDate))

SELECT @Month = RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, (@MonthPre + 1000000000)), 2)

SELECT @DayPre = CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), DATEPART(dd, @PreviousDate))

SELECT @Day = RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, (@DayPre + 1000000000)), 2)

SET @FinalDate = CAST(@Year + @Month + @Day AS INT)

-- Pull Job History 
SELECT j.[name]
	,s.step_name
	,h.step_id
	,MSDB.DBO.AGENT_DATETIME(h.run_date, h.run_time) AS run_time
	,STUFF(STUFF(STUFF(RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 8) + CAST(h.run_duration AS VARCHAR(8)), 8), 3, 0, ':'), 6, 0, ':'), 9, 0, ':') 'run_duration (DD:HH:MM:SS)  '
	,h.run_status
	,h.sql_severity
	,h.message
	,h.SERVER
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory h
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs j ON h.job_id = j.job_id
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps s ON j.job_id = s.job_id
	AND h.step_id = s.step_id
WHERE h.run_date > @FinalDate
ORDER BY h.instance_id DESC

 

To get a job history for everything that has succeeded or failed over the last 7 days run the query below. Simply change the @RunStatus variable to either 0 (failed) or 1 (succeeded).

-- Variable Declarations 
DECLARE @RunStatus AS BIT
DECLARE @PreviousDate DATETIME
DECLARE @Year VARCHAR(4)
DECLARE @Month VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @MonthPre VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @Day VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @DayPre VARCHAR(2)
DECLARE @FinalDate INT

/*Succeeded Jobs*/
--SET @RunStatus = 1
/*Failed Jobs*/
SET @RunStatus = 0

-- Initialize Variables 
SET @PreviousDate = DATEADD(dd, - 7, GETDATE()) -- Last 7 days  
SET @Year = DATEPART(yyyy, @PreviousDate)

SELECT @MonthPre = CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), DATEPART(mm, @PreviousDate))

SELECT @Month = RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, (@MonthPre + 1000000000)), 2)

SELECT @DayPre = CONVERT(VARCHAR(2), DATEPART(dd, @PreviousDate))

SELECT @Day = RIGHT(CONVERT(VARCHAR, (@DayPre + 1000000000)), 2)

SET @FinalDate = CAST(@Year + @Month + @Day AS INT)

-- Pull Job History 
SELECT j.[name]
	,s.step_name
	,h.step_id
	,MSDB.DBO.AGENT_DATETIME(h.run_date, h.run_time) AS run_time
	,STUFF(STUFF(STUFF(RIGHT(REPLICATE('0', 8) + CAST(h.run_duration AS VARCHAR(8)), 8), 3, 0, ':'), 6, 0, ':'), 9, 0, ':') 'run_duration (DD:HH:MM:SS)  '
	,h.run_status
	,h.sql_severity
	,h.message
	,h.SERVER
FROM msdb.dbo.sysjobhistory h
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobs j ON h.job_id = j.job_id
INNER JOIN msdb.dbo.sysjobsteps s ON j.job_id = s.job_id
	AND h.step_id = s.step_id
WHERE h.run_status = @RunStatus
	AND h.run_date > @FinalDate
ORDER BY h.instance_id DESC

 

If you want to generate a list of all the:

  1. jobs and their owners
  2. SSIS packages and their owners

you can do so by running the queries below. (If you don’t already know the precise name or ID of a job)

--Jobs
select s.name,l.name
 from  msdb..sysjobs s 
 left join master.sys.syslogins l on s.owner_sid = l.sid

--Packages
select s.name,l.name 
from msdb..sysssispackages s 
 left join master.sys.syslogins l on s.ownersid = l.sid

 

Once you have retrieved either the name (command) or the ID of the job you are looking for you can plug that info into either one of the queries below also.

use msdb

select *
from dbo.sysjobsteps with (nolock)
where command like '%YourJobName%'

select *
from dbo.sysjobs sj with (nolock)
where sj.job_id = '1234-1234-1234-1234-1234'