John McCormack has a tip for us:
The traditional methods used for to find the start up time for SQL Server don’t work in Azure SQL DB.
I searched high and low to find this and thought I’ve got to share, and hopefully make it search engine friendly. A traditional google or bing search wasn’t bringing up the best way to find this out. I saw a lot of complicated queries to pull data, convert it and estimate start up time using functions and all kinds of magic.
Click through for the one-liner script.