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  • November 9, 2011 at 8:44 am

    #250535

    Hi all,does anyone know of a free SQL tool that can scan a group of machines and expose the follwoing:

    1.What version of SQL on each machine.

    2.Service pack level

    3.Number of databases on each SQL machine.

    Thanks.

  • November 9, 2011 at 8:48 am

    #1405277

    You can do this with a local server group in SSMS and a query such as this

    SELECT @@VERSION,COUNT(*) As NumberOfDatabases FROM sys.databases

    Have a look here

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/articles/Management+Studio+(SSMS)/63650/

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  • November 9, 2011 at 8:50 am

    #1405278

    have a look at the MAP toolkit, it should give you 1,2 not sure about 3 though.

    http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb977556.aspx%5B/url%5D

  • November 9, 2011 at 8:52 am

    #1405279

    SSIS isn't free, but it comes with the product, so it won't cost you anything extra to write a package that will connect to each server and get the information you're looking for. That will involve a little work on your part, so if you're not comfortable or confident with SSIS, you might want to investigate a utility called sqlping. I've never used it so I don't know how much of the information you require it will give you, but you can use the data it does return to connect to each server in turn and get the rest of the information.

    John

  • November 9, 2011 at 8:53 am

    #1405281

    I think you can do this thorugh Powershell

  • November 9, 2011 at 9:00 am

    #1405288

    davidshephard (11/9/2011)

    Hi all,does anyone know of a free SQL tool that can scan a group of machines and expose the follwoing:

    1.What version of SQL on each machine.

    2.Service pack level

    3.Number of databases on each SQL machine.

    Thanks.

    SQLRecon or SQLPing can give you #1 and #2, but you'll probably need to use powershell to get #3. so if you are going to use powershell, i'd do all the data gathering there instead.

    Lowell

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  • November 9, 2011 at 10:15 am

    #1405364

    Thanks a ton.

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