Comments on: SQL SERVER – 2008 – SSMS Feature – Multi-server Queries

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By: Nakul Vachhrajani

Nakul Vachhrajani — Sun, 30 Jan 2011 14:49:07 +0000

Hello, Pinal!

As you might know, I am writing a series on the Underappreciated features of Microsoft SQL Server. The series is actually inspired from Andy Warren’s editorial of the same name in SQL Server Central.

One of the features that came up was the multi-server queries feature. I have thus referred your post in my article at: http://beyondrelational.com/blogs/nakul/archive/2011/02/04/multi-server-queries-underappreciated-features-of-microsoft-sql-server.aspx.

Do let me know your thoughts on the same.

Thank-you, and have a great day!

Thanks & Regards,

Nakul Vachhrajani

By: naresh

naresh — Mon, 22 Nov 2010 22:10:45 +0000

what if i want to add 100′s of servers at a time which are with same sa password.

By: DavidG

DavidG — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 03:16:20 +0000

Came across this capability in SQL2k8 but was hoping it could replace the Linked Servers for doing multi-database queries.

Unfortunately this appears to be for multi-server admin scripted tasks. Where the databases and structures are identical on each of the Registered Servers in the Group. Such as with the sys.* databases.

Definitely nice but it would be of even greater benefit if one could do a 4-part naming convention within these aggregate groups.

By: Kev_Mck

Kev_Mck — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 01:31:47 +0000

This is a nice function. Wouldn’t have been my first choice for new features, but certainly a plus.

What irks me in 08 is that opening a table in SSMS only opens TOP 200

Sure, I can see the point of that being an OPTION.. but I couldn’t find a way to stop it being the norm :\