Thursday, September 20, 2012

Identify the versions & editions of all SQL Instances in a company

What if you are assigned to a task of identifying the versions & editions of each and every SQL Instance in the company? Your job has just been made easier with the script below! Run the below script on a CMS (Central Management Server) and you should have a neatly formatted result set.

set nocount on
declare @version varchar (10)
declare @servername varchar(250)
declare @ver varchar(10)
set @servername=(select @@servername)
set @version = substring(cast(SERVERPROPERTY('productversion') as varchar(100)),0,CHARINDEX('.',(cast(SERVERPROPERTY('productversion') as varchar(100))))+2)
set @ver=case @version
       when '8.0' then '2000'
       when '9.0' then '2005'
       when '10.0' then '2008'
       when '10.5' then '2008 R2'
       when '11.0' then '2012'
       when '12.0' then '2014'
       when '13.0' then '2016'
       end
select SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') as Physical_Server_Name, @ver as Version, SERVERPROPERTY('productversion') as Build_Number,
SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') as Edition
set nocount off

Failed to obtain the resource handle for cluster resource with name or ID 'xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx' error on Availability Group databases

We recently had failures for our Backup Maintenance Plan (performing T-Log backups) and it would fail with the below error message: Message ...