[sql] Calculate execution time of a SQL query?

I am providing search functionality in my website, when user searches a record then I want to display the time the query taken to get the results same as google does. When we search anything then google displays how much time it takes to get results?

For this I have declared a @start variable in my SP and finding the difference in the end, as below;

DECLARE @start_time DATETIME

SET @start_time = GETDATE()

-- my query
SELECT * FROM @search_temp_table

SELECT RTRIM(CAST(DATEDIFF(MS, @start_time, GETDATE()) AS CHAR(10))) AS 'TimeTaken'

Is there any other easy and fast way, or a single line of query with which we can find out the time a query taken to execute?

I'm using SQL Server 2005.

try this

DECLARE @StartTime DATETIME
SET @StartTime = GETDATE()

  SET @EndTime = GETDATE()
  PRINT 'StartTime = ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),@StartTime,121)
  PRINT '  EndTime = ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),@EndTime,121)
  PRINT ' Duration = ' + CONVERT(VARCHAR(30),@EndTime -@starttime,114)

If that doesn't do it, then try SET STATISTICS TIME ON

Why are you doing it in SQL? Admittedly that does show a "true" query time as opposed to the query time + time taken to shuffle data each way across the network, but it's polluting your database code. I doubt that your users will care - in fact, they'd probably rather include the network time, as it all contributes to the time taken for them to see the page.

Why not do the timing in your web application code? Aside from anything else, that means that for cases where you don't want to do any timing, but you want to execute the same proc, you don't need to mess around with something you don't need.

Please use

-- turn on statistics IO for IO related 
SET STATISTICS IO ON 
GO

and for time calculation use

SET STATISTICS TIME ON
GO

then It will give result for every query . In messages window near query input window.

declare @sttime  datetime
set @sttime=getdate()
print @sttime
Select * from ProductMaster   
SELECT RTRIM(CAST(DATEDIFF(MS, @sttime, GETDATE()) AS CHAR(10))) AS 'TimeTaken'    

Well, If you really want to do it in your DB there is a more accurate way as given in MSDN:

SET STATISTICS TIME ON

You can read this information from your application as well.

You can use

SET STATISTICS TIME { ON | OFF }

Displays the number of milliseconds required to parse, compile, and execute each statement

When SET STATISTICS TIME is ON, the time statistics for a statement are displayed. When OFF, the time statistics are not displayed

USE AdventureWorks2012;  
GO         
SET STATISTICS TIME ON;  
GO  
SELECT ProductID, StartDate, EndDate, StandardCost   
FROM Production.ProductCostHistory  
WHERE StandardCost < 500.00;  
GO  
SET STATISTICS TIME OFF;  
GO  

I found this one more helpful and simple

DECLARE @StartTime datetime,@EndTime datetime   
SELECT @StartTime=GETDATE() 
--Your Query to be run goes here--  
SELECT @EndTime=GETDATE()   
SELECT DATEDIFF(ms,@StartTime,@EndTime) AS [Duration in milliseconds]