Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!mx05.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Erland Sommarskog Newsgroups: comp.databases.ms-sqlserver Subject: Re: List all databases on all servers Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2013 10:38:31 +0100 Organization: Erland Sommarskog Lines: 28 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Injection-Info: mx05.eternal-september.org; posting-host="e87282ec96c371b8272e2d14c79930f2"; logging-data="29910"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX1/FQetcLgGDUsSkdCiGHEJc" User-Agent: Xnews/2006.08.24 Mime-proxy/2.1.c.0 (Win32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Bpm89pZmx8wkappblsaXUTEWqbU= Xref: csiph.com comp.databases.ms-sqlserver:1393 Cathy (Cathy@Nospam.com) writes: > Had a quick look at apexsql demo, looks nice but still requires me to > enter all server names. Yes. I will have to admit that I don't know any tips of discovering SQL Servers. > Ideally I need to track any new installations and ensure they comply to > the most basic set of standards. (i.e backups & logfiles) Then again, if I as a developer install SQL Server on my workstation to have as my playground, should you really care? I can assure that I'm running any backups! :-) One tool to monitor servers is the Policy Based Management that ships with SQL 2008 or later. I'm not entirely excited about all features, but I think it works better for monitoring than preventing. Again, you probably need to tell it which servers to monitor, but as I said, I donä't think you want to monitor all instances in your network. -- Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se Links for SQL Server Books Online: SQL 2008: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/cc514207.aspx SQL 2005: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/sqlserver/bb895970.aspx