Registering 300+ SQL Servers to management studio from a list

Question

Registering 300+ SQL Servers to management studio from a list

ondrocks

Old Hand

Points: 393
More actions
November 29, 2010 at 11:38 pm

#143742

Hello
I have a spreadsheet which consist of a list of all SQL servers.Can someone help me with trick or script to register a list of SQL server from a spreadsheet/txt file to management studio.
Register/connect all the SQL server one by one is time consuming when I have a list of 300+ SQL servers to manage them remotely.

Viewing 7 posts - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic. Login to reply

grahamc SSCertifiable Points: 6762 More actions · Answer 1

Well in Management Studio, under the Registered Servers window, you can right click on a folder, go to tasks and import a file, which will do the registering. For the format of the file, you may have to export a Server and test.

Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323518 More actions · Answer 2

learned something new today; thanks graham; didn't even know about the Registered Servers panel until this post. lots of options like automatic discovery of all servers on the network and stuff.

Lowell

--help us help you! If you post a question, make sure you include a CREATE TABLE... statement and INSERT INTO... statement into that table to give the volunteers here representative data. with your description of the problem, we can provide a tested, verifiable solution to your question! asking the question the right way gets you a tested answer the fastest way possible!

grahamc SSCertifiable Points: 6762 More actions · Answer 3

Lowell (11/30/2010)
learned something new today; thanks graham; didn't even know about the Registered Servers panel until this post. lots of options like automatic discovery of all servers on the network and stuff.

Glad to help 😉 considering all the help I get from this forum....

WayneS SSC Guru Points: 95460 More actions · Answer 4

If you're using SSMS 2008, there is another neat trick. In the Registered Servers panel, make separate folders for each logical (to you) group. Then, you can right-click the group, select "New Query", and a query window opens up connected to all of the servers. Run something like "SELECT @@ServerName", and you'll get responses from all of the servers.

Wayne
Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server 2008
Author - SQL Server T-SQL Recipes

If you can't explain to another person how the code that you're copying from the internet works, then DON'T USE IT on a production system! After all, you will be the one supporting it!

Links:
For better assistance in answering your questions
Performance Problems
Common date/time routines
Understanding and Using APPLY Part 1 & Part 2

grahamc SSCertifiable Points: 6762 More actions · Answer 5

WayneS (11/30/2010)
If you're using SSMS 2008, there is another neat trick. In the Registered Servers panel, ake separate folders for each logical (to you) group. Then, you can right-click the group, select "New Query", and a query window opens up connected to all of the servers. Run something like "SELECT @@ServerName", and you'll get responses from all of the servers.

always knew about that, but never actually tried it, cool!

SQL Rao SSC Enthusiast Points: 154 More actions · Answer 6

SQL Rao

SSC Enthusiast

Points: 154

December 1, 2010 at 6:14 am

#1257285

Same with me too. really useful option. thanks