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Help writing a SP to return database properties

  • May 2, 2006 at 3:50 am

    #111939

    Hi all,

    I need to write a stored procedure which will return file details for all the user databases on a server.

    Ideally I would like the following information per db:

    database, data file name, data physical file name, data status (attached/detached)

    database, log file name, log physical file name, log status (attached/detached)

    I've looked at the sysfiles system table, but I'm having trouble working out the status flags.

    Thanks.

  • May 2, 2006 at 4:17 am

    #635266

    From books online

    status

    int

    Status bits for the growth value in either megabytes (MB) or kilobytes (KB).

    0x2 = Disk file.

    0x40 = Log file.

    0x100000 = Growth. This value is a percentage and not the number of pages.

    so the status just tells you whether the file is data or log. I don't think there's any way to get a list of detached databases, since once you detach, the database doesn't exist as far as SQL is concerned.

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