ByGary Cowan

Administration, DBA, managment studio, server, sql, sql server

SQL Server Information from a script

SQL Server Information from a script.

SQL Server has a lot of useful information that you need to administrate or develop solutions. Here is a great SQL Script to find out information about your SQL Server Instance and operating system.

-- Get selected server properties 
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') AS [MachineName], SERVERPROPERTY('ServerName') AS [ServerName],  
SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') AS [Instance], SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered') AS [IsClustered], 
SERVERPROPERTY('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS') AS [ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS], 
SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') AS [Edition], SERVERPROPERTY('ProductLevel') AS [ProductLevel], 
SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') AS [ProductVersion], SERVERPROPERTY('ProcessID') AS [ProcessID],
SERVERPROPERTY('Collation') AS [Collation], SERVERPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled') AS [IsFullTextInstalled], 
SERVERPROPERTY('IsIntegratedSecurityOnly') AS [IsIntegratedSecurityOnly],
SERVERPROPERTY('IsHadrEnabled') AS [IsHadrEnabled], SERVERPROPERTY('HadrManagerStatus') AS [HadrManagerStatus],
SERVERPROPERTY('IsXTPSupported') AS [IsXTPSupported];

-- Windows information 
SELECT windows_release, windows_service_pack_level, 
       windows_sku, os_language_version
FROM sys.dm_os_windows_info WITH (NOLOCK) OPTION (RECOMPILE);

-- Get configuration values for instance
SELECT name, value, value_in_use, minimum, maximum, [description], is_dynamic, is_advanced
FROM sys.configurations WITH (NOLOCK)
ORDER BY name OPTION (RECOMPILE);

-- SQL Server Services information 
SELECT servicename, process_id, startup_type_desc, status_desc, 
last_startup_time, service_account, is_clustered, cluster_nodename, [filename]
FROM sys.dm_server_services WITH (NOLOCK) OPTION (RECOMPILE);


-- Get processor description from Windows Registry
EXEC xp_instance_regread N'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE', N'HARDWARE\DESCRIPTION\System\CentralProcessor\0', N'ProcessorNameString';


-- Volume info for all LUNS that have database files on the current instance 
SELECT DISTINCT vs.volume_mount_point, vs.file_system_type, 
vs.logical_volume_name, CONVERT(DECIMAL(18,2),vs.total_bytes/1073741824.0) AS [Total Size (GB)],
CONVERT(DECIMAL(18,2),vs.available_bytes/1073741824.0) AS [Available Size (GB)],  
CAST(CAST(vs.available_bytes AS FLOAT)/ CAST(vs.total_bytes AS FLOAT) AS DECIMAL(18,2)) * 100 AS [Space Free %] 
FROM sys.master_files AS f WITH (NOLOCK)
CROSS APPLY sys.dm_os_volume_stats(f.database_id, f.[file_id]) AS vs OPTION (RECOMPILE);


-- File names and paths for TempDB and all user databases in instance 
SELECT DB_NAME([database_id]) AS [Database Name], 
       [file_id], name, physical_name, type_desc, state_desc,
	   is_percent_growth, growth,
	   CONVERT(bigint, growth/128.0) AS [Growth in MB], 
       CONVERT(bigint, size/128.0) AS [Total Size in MB]
FROM sys.master_files WITH (NOLOCK)
WHERE [database_id] > 4 
AND [database_id] <> 32767
OR [database_id] = 2
ORDER BY DB_NAME([database_id]) OPTION (RECOMPILE)