During a recent clean up project I was giving a list of stored procedures and asked to identify when the last time each procedure was executed. Fortunately there is an easy way to query this information.
Procedural statistics are stored in the sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats Dynamic Management View (DMV). Querying this will return aggregate performance stats for cached stored procedures. The view will return a single row for each cached procedure plan.
Joining on sys.objects allows you to reference individual database objects, in this case a stored procedure.
The query shown below can be used to query a specific stored procedure. Simply modify the script to include your database name and the name of the stored procedure.
SELECT o.name, s.last_execution_time, s.type_desc, s.execution_count FROM sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats s INNER JOIN sys.objects o ON s.object_id = o.object_id WHERE DB_NAME(s.database_ID) = ''--Database Name AND o.name LIKE ('%%')--Object NameIn addition to including the procedure name and last_execution_time I have also included type_desc and execution_count columns in this script.
The type_desc column includes the object type while the execution_count column shows the number of times the stored procedure has been executed since it was last compiled. This can be useful information when researching performance issues.
After running the script the results should look similar to the following screenshot. In this example I am looking for the last execution time of a procedure named USP_POINVOIC_INS .
There is a ton of great information you can glean from the sys.dm_exec_procedure_stats DMV. For more information regarding all the various columns that can be included in the data check out the Microsoft Docs page.