[ Team LiB ]Recipe 10.1 Listing SQL Servers Problem You need to obtain a list of SQL Servers available on the network.. Solution Use SQL Server Distributed Management Objects SQL-DMO
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Recipe 10.1 Listing SQL Servers
Problem
You need to obtain a list of SQL Servers available on the network
Solution
Use SQL Server Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) to retrieve a list of available SQL Servers
You'll need a reference to the Microsoft SQLDMO Object Library from the COM tab in Visual Studio NET's Add Reference Dialog
The sample code retrieves and displays a list of all SQL Servers running on a local network segment by using SQL-DMO through COM interop
The C# code is shown in Example 10-1
Example 10-1 File: ServerListForm.cs
// Namespaces, variables, and constants
using System;
//
serverListListBox.Items.Clear( );
// Create a SQL Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO)
// application object
SQLDMO.Application dmo = new SQLDMO.Application( );
// Retrieve the available servers
SQLDMO.NameList serverNameList = dmo.ListAvailableSQLServers( );
// Iterate over the collection of available servers
for(int i = 0; i < serverNameList.Count; i++)
{
if (serverNameList.Item(i) != null)
serverListListBox.Items.Add(serverNameList.Item(i));
}
serverListListBox.Items.Add("End of list.");
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SQL Server Distributed Management Objects (SQL-DMO) is a collection of objects that encapsulate SQL Server database and replication management SQL-DMO is used to automate SQL Server tasks, create and administer SQL Server objects, and install and configure replication You can use SQL-DMO from a NET application through COM interop For more information about SQL-DMO, see Microsoft SQL Server Books Online
The ListAvailableSQLServers( ) method of the SQL-DMO Application object returns a NameList object that enumerates all running servers that listen on named pipes and are located in the same domain Any servers running on Windows 9x will not be reported because they do not listen on named pipes The discovery is based on a network
broadcast, so if you are disconnected from a network, local servers will not be
enumerated
This procedure does not return desktop (MSDE) instances
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