Comments on: SQL SERVER – Find All Servers From Local Network – Using sqlcmd – Detect Installed SQL Server on Network

By: poorni

poorni — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 06:18:35 +0000

have ur problem solved.. i hve the same problem.. what u did for this….

By: poorni

poorni — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:41:15 +0000

Sir when i give this in cmd it displays

C:\Users\poorni>sqlcmd -L

Servers:

C:\Users\poorni>osql -L

Servers:
— NONE –

what to do for this… sir please pl pl help me i am breaking my head over this and the deadline is near forward….

By: navit

navit — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 16:04:03 +0000

thank you pinal sir….

By: aj4youAnto

aj4youAnto — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 05:53:29 +0000

Hi pinaldave,
We need your help.Our network has sql server 2008 R2 installed in each computer.We cannot access each others sql server.We are getting error-26.Any help?Thanks in advance

By: dominique

dominique — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 23:12:26 +0000

I ran the command on the SQL Server Cluster 2008 SP1

osql -L returns:
Servers :
— NONE –

sqlcmd -L returns
Servers:

why at least the local server is not lsited?
Thanks,
DOm

By: alemad

alemad — Wed, 05 Oct 2011 05:07:33 +0000

no server at all
Server :
only

By: Gaurav

Gaurav — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:35:58 +0000

I am a student and i want to use SQL SERVER 2005 for basic use and when i will opened SQL SERVER STUDIO 2005 its ask server name but i have not any server then how can i use it ?

By: Tayfun Demirbilek

Tayfun Demirbilek — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 13:39:14 +0000

sqlcmd -L does not give the complete list. However osql -L gives.

Tayfun Demirbilek

By: Bruce

Bruce — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:11:07 +0000

You had mentioned to, “Run “sqlcmd -L” in your command prompt to ascertain if your server is included in your network list.” My server is not in that list, so how do I add it to it? I am using Windows Server 2003.

Thanks BC

By: Amit

Amit — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:36:09 +0000

We have few servers in remote location and couple of in house servers
everything is in same domain but when i run SQLCMD -L command on server at remote location i see only servers of remote location,,,, and when i run the same command on any of the inhouse servers it gives list of all inhouse servers, why is it so despite i have everything in same domain

By: Mr.JC

Mr.JC — Tue, 24 May 2011 12:26:46 +0000

Hi Sir,

Please help me. I can’t attach MS SQL to my Visual Studio 2005/2008/2010. The Visual Basic can’t find the SQL Database. either I can’t find the SQL database to my savepoint even thoe my Laptop is newly reformatted.. help me please, asoon as posible..

God bless..
Mr.JC

By: Mahmoud

Mahmoud — Sat, 30 Apr 2011 01:13:32 +0000

Hello,
Thank you for every body:)
i have problme that i do all command you presented such as
sqlcmd -L and osql -L

but i don’t see and servers.
also when i go to sql server managment stiduo
i can’t login because there is no server
note i have installed
sql server 2008 SQLManagementStudio_x86_ENU.

please could you check my status
Regards,

By: ANAL

ANAL — Thu, 14 Apr 2011 14:11:20 +0000

Hey guys, has anyone tried the following SQL command out? It lists servers and let’s you select which one to attach.

DROP *

By: Sumeet

Sumeet — Sun, 10 Apr 2011 07:45:46 +0000

Hello Sir,

i am having problem ,
I can’t access my Network SQL Instance ,
i enabled SQL SERVER BROWSER ,
i can access my Instance on same system , am using LAN and trying to search for instance so it is not showing……

PlzZz help…..me

ThanxXx in Advance

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:51:25 +0000

In the command prompt use, osql -L

By: LEZHI

LEZHI — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:45:58 +0000

hi, i run the command….but i found that i don’t have one in the list. my sever is the domain controller. and i can not access to it. can i add the local server to the list?
thank you

By: Raghu

Raghu — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:43:33 +0000

Hello Pinal,

Is there any way that I can get all the servers list in our network with version of sql server?
This is really important for us to know, how many servers are in our network with version.

By: shekar

shekar — Thu, 03 Mar 2011 09:16:22 +0000

sir can u tel me how to set the following in object explorer ( ms sql 2005)

server type:

server name:

authentication:

password:

plz explain how to set these………..

By: Vonn

Vonn — Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:33:56 +0000

When I run the “sqlcmd -L” on the CommandPrompt, it only outputs..

Server :

..and nothing more, what does it mean?

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Tue, 15 Feb 2011 15:04:43 +0000

Can you check if it comes under your system’s network?

By: aakash

aakash — Mon, 14 Feb 2011 05:15:46 +0000

dear sir, i executed the command sqlcmd -L in the prompt and i found the output as :

A-9
A-9\NEW
A-9\SQLEXPRESS

But i have created an instance MSSQLSERVER with windows authentication but this is not shown in the above output, also in visual studio when i want to connect to this instance through data source MS Sql Server then it does not shows this instance name in the list

By: proline

proline — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:01:28 +0000

can share your net thou SQL Server 2005/2008 with out my say so .. or can some 1 hack ur network thou cable network .. like know how stop People gain access too your pc .. stop how stop People .. used my net though wireless connection’s

i ve unstalled SQL Server 2005 from my pc . becase think some try used get accesss too my pc .

i need simlpe way’s understanding what is SQL Server 2005 act do ..i am not pc tech .. please some 1 till what do here protect my salf some time do think fire wall do it’s job
hop some can help me this isssue be great ta ..

from proline .

By: Akintunde David

Akintunde David — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 11:58:29 +0000

I installed SQL Express 2005 on my laptop, I want to use as my database engine for a small business. I have this error (53)…,and SQL browser is stopped, each time I start it, it will give error…what can i do…?

By: MOHAMED

MOHAMED — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 19:55:42 +0000

VERY THANKS

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 11:31:27 +0000

Make sure the application is using the correct connectstring and the server is available over network