Passing servername as parameter in sqlserver.

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Passing servername as parameter in sqlserver.

Mithra

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October 30, 2012 at 1:43 pm

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Team,
I am trying to write a generic stored procedure to check all the processes running in the server.I will be using 'select * from sysprocesses.How can i deploy this in a stored proc by making servername as a parameter.Basically i want to know how to pass 'servername' as a parameter in stored procedure in sqlserver.A basic script will be helpful,since i am very new to TSQL and I work only on administration side.
Thanks in advance,
Mithra.

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 1

Mithra (10/30/2012)
Team,
I am trying to write a generic stored procedure to check all the processes running in the server.I will be using 'select * from sysprocesses.How can i deploy this in a stored proc by making servername as a parameter.Basically i want to know how to pass 'servername' as a parameter in stored procedure in sqlserver.A basic script will be helpful,since i am very new to TSQL and I work only on administration side.
Thanks in advance,
Mithra.

Not quite sure what you mean by servername. Are you saying you want to create a proc on one of your database servers that can query sys.sysprocesses from any other server on your network?

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Mithra SSChasing Mays Points: 639 More actions · Answer 2

Yes Sean.That right.I need to create a sp in one of my test server and have that sp to pull all the details from another server in the network by just passing a server name as parameter.

Thanks,

Mithra.

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 3

ok weird requirement, this won't work if ad Hoc is disabled, obviously.

this works for me on my dev machine, which does allow adhoc:

--DROP PROC pr_Processes

CREATE PROCEDURE pr_Processes

@SERVERNAME varchar(128)

AS

BEGIN --PROC

DECLARE @SQL varchar(8000)

SET @SQL = 'SELECT * FROM OPENROWSET( ''SQLNCLI'',

''Server={DbNameplaceholder};Trusted_Connection=yes;'',

''SET FMTONLY OFF; SET NOCOUNT ON; select * from sysprocesses''

)'

SET @SQL = REPLACE(@SQL,'{DbNameplaceholder}',@SERVERNAME)

EXEC(@SQL)

END --PROC

GO

EXEC pr_Processes 'DEV223'

/*

SQL Server blocked access to STATEMENT 'OpenRowset/OpenDatasource' of component 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries' because this component is turned off as part of the security configuration for this server. A system administrator can enable the use of 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries' by using sp_configure. For more information about enabling 'Ad Hoc Distributed Queries', see "Surface Area Configuration" in SQL Server Books Online.

*/

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286590 More actions · Answer 4

Mithra (10/30/2012)
Yes Sean.That right.I need to create a sp in one of my test server and have that sp to pull all the details from another server in the network by just passing a server name as parameter.
Thanks,
Mithra.

You will need to have a link server setup on the same machine where this sproc will live that will point to each server you want to query.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188279.aspx

Then you will have to execute your query via dynamic sql.

This is a very basic look at how you can do this.

declare @ServerName varchar(50)

set @ServerName = 'YourLinkServerNameHere'

declare @sql varchar(max)

set @sql = 'select * from ' + @ServerName + '.master.sys.sysprocesses'

exec (@sql)

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