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Tuesday, August 20, 2013

SQL Server 2014 CTP1

Microsoft has released SQL Server 2014 CTP1 Product Guide. This product guide release represents a significant milestone for customers and partners who want to experience the extensive new value delivered by SQL Server 2014 CTP1.

Download the datasheets, white papers and technical presentations from,
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=39269

This will help you evaluate Microsoft SQL Server 2014 CTP1.

Friday, February 15, 2013

How To: Lists Linked Server

The following Stored procedure will returns the list of linked servers defined in the server in which we are executing it.

sp_linkedservers

This procedure will return the following informations about the linked server
Column name
Data type
Description
SRV_NAME
sysname
Name of the linked server.
SRV_PROVIDERNAME
nvarchar(128)
Friendly name of the OLE DB provider managing access to the specified linked server.
SRV_PRODUCT
nvarchar(128)
Product name of the linked server.
SRV_DATASOURCE
nvarchar(4000)
OLE DB data source property corresponding to the specified linked server.
SRV_PROVIDERSTRING
nvarchar(4000)
OLE DB provider string property corresponding to the linked server.
SRV_LOCATION
nvarchar(4000)
OLE DB location property corresponding to the specified linked server.
SRV_CAT
sysname
OLE DB catalog property corresponding to the specified linked server.

Or... you can use following SQL Scripts to lists all linked servers


select * from master..sysservers
Hope this helps!