dbo-syssessions-transact-sql.md

title	dbo.syssessions (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs
ms.custom
ms.date	12/30/2019
ms.prod	sql
ms.reviewer
ms.technology	system-objects
ms.topic	language-reference
f1_keywords	dbo.syssessions_TSQL dbo.syssessions syssessions_TSQL syssessions
dev_langs	TSQL
helpviewer_keywords	syssessions system table
ms.assetid	187819b6-c7f4-4a26-b74c-0a89e96695cf
author	stevestein
ms.author	sstein

dbo.syssessions (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDEtsql-appliesto-ss2008-xxxx-xxxx-xxx-md]

Each time [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Agent starts, it creates a new session. [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Agent uses sessions to preserve the status of jobs when the [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Agent service is restarted or stopped unexpectedly. Each row of the syssessions table contains information about one session. Use the sysjobactivity table to view the job state at the end of each session.

This table is stored in the msdb database.

Column name	Data type	Description
session_id	int	ID of a [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Agent session. This session_id is not the SPID for the session, but rather an IDENTITY value within this system table.
agent_start_date	datetime	Date and time that the [!INCLUDEssNoVersion] Agent service was started for this session.

Remarks

Only users who are members of the sysadmin fixed server role can access this table.

See Also

dbo.sysjobactivity (Transact-SQL)