dbo-syssessions-transact-sql.md

title	dbo.syssessions (Transact-SQL)
description	dbo.syssessions (Transact-SQL)
author	VanMSFT
ms.author	vanto
ms.date	12/30/2019
ms.service	sql
ms.subservice	system-objects
ms.topic	reference
f1_keywords	dbo.syssessions_TSQL dbo.syssessions syssessions_TSQL syssessions
helpviewer_keywords	syssessions system table
dev_langs	TSQL

dbo.syssessions (Transact-SQL)

[!INCLUDE SQL Server]

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)