How can you tell the date of the last full database backup?

How can you tell the date of the last full database backup?
Is there a system table that can be queried?
Robert Alexander
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SELECT TOP 3 *
FROM msdb..backupset
WHERE database_name=DB_NAME()
ORDER BY backup_finish_date DESC
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"Robert Alexander" <robert.alexander@.cca-audit.com> wrote in message
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> How can you tell the date of the last full database backup?
> Is there a system table that can be queried?
> Robert Alexander
> Robert.Alexander@.cca-audit.com
>
>
|||Close. You have to use the type column if there are log and/or differential
backups from that database. 'D' for Database, 'I' for Differential, 'L' for
Log. So that gives:
SELECT TOP 3 *
FROM msdb..backupset
WHERE database_name=DB_NAME()
AND [TYPE] = 'D'
ORDER BY backup_finish_date DESC
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"Aaron [SQL Server MVP]" <ten.xoc@.dnartreb.noraa> wrote in message
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> SELECT TOP 3 *
> FROM msdb..backupset
> WHERE database_name=DB_NAME()
> ORDER BY backup_finish_date DESC
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