Find Database Recovery Mode

-- Author: Nirav Patel (CodeLake - http://www.codelake.com)
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-- To find the Recovery Mode(Model) for the 'master' database
SELECT CONVERT(SYSNAME, DATABASEPROPERTYEX(N'master', 'Recovery'))

-- Author: Nirav Patel (CodeLake - http://www.codelake.com)
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-- To find the Recovery Mode(Model) for all the databases
SELECT [name] AS [DatabaseName], 
CONVERT(SYSNAME, DATABASEPROPERTYEX(N''+ [name] + '', 'Recovery')) AS 
[RecoveryModel] FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases ORDER BY name


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-- ALTERNATIVE WAY
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-- Author: Greg Charles
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-- To find the Recovery Mode(Model) for the 'master' database
SELECT recovery_model_desc FROM sys.databases WHERE name = 'master'