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rflewitt

Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:28 PM

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I've many databases on the server I've inherited. Some are detached and rather than manually check each db to see which is attached/detached I'm trying to find a sql script method that will tell me. I've searched through the site but cannot find anything that may help. Is it possible? If so, how? Thanks for any help.

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rflewitt

Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:29 PM

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Sorry - should have said SQL2000

- Richard

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Andy Warren

Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 5:57 PM

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Nothing that I know of. One way would be to pull the list of mdf's, then query against (sysfiles? have to look) to see if its listed. Or you could just try to move or rename them, SQL wont let you if they are in use.

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rflewitt

Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:01 PM

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It appears that once detached the db is no longer know to SQL Server (or at least it looks that way to me). I'm taking the sledge hammer approach and searching for mdf's and then as you suggest comparing them against sysdatabases. I guess I could do this in a dos script but that's a bit beyond me at the moment. Maybe someone will come up with something better - thanks, Richard.

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Andy Warren

Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 6:31 PM

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Thats correct - once you detach SQL doesnt know anything about it.

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rflewitt

Posted Wednesday, August 14, 2002 8:27 PM

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I've knocked together this short script that I run from Master. Forgive any scripting stupidity - I'm not a DBA - but I think you get the general approach. It assumes you have some idea where the .mdf files are. I'm sure someone could improve on it but it does what I need at the moment.
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if exists (select name from sysobjects where name ='temp_mdf_files') drop table temp_mdf_files

if exists (select name from sysobjects where name ='temp_mdf_dbnames') drop table temp_mdf_dbnames

create table temp_mdf_files (
full_filename varchar(200))

create table temp_mdf_dbnames (
pos_dbname varchar(200))

insert temp_mdf_files
exec xp_cmdshell 'dir e:\*.mdf /s/b'

insert temp_mdf_dbnames
select reverse(
substring( reverse(
substring(full_filename,1,datalength(full_filename)-4)) ,1,patindex('%\%', reverse(full_filename))-5)
)
from temp_mdf_files
order by 1

select * from temp_mdf_dbnames
where pos_dbname not in (select name from sysdatabases)

drop table temp_mdf_files
drop table temp_mdf_dbnames

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rflewitt

Posted Monday, August 19, 2002 2:49 PM

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This teaches me to test a lot more before going public. The above didn't really work but this version does (I think).

if exists (select name from sysobjects where name ='temp_mdf_files') drop table temp_mdf_files

create table temp_mdf_files (
full_filename varchar(200))

insert temp_mdf_files
exec xp_cmdshell 'dir e:\*.mdf /s/b'
insert temp_mdf_files
exec xp_cmdshell 'dir c:\*.mdf /s/b'
insert temp_mdf_files
exec xp_cmdshell 'dir d:\*.mdf /s/b'

select * from temp_mdf_files
where Upper(full_filename) not in (select Upper(filename) from sysdatabases)
order by 1

drop table temp_mdf_files

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Jack 95169

Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:02 AM

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Nearly...
You need to enable XP_cmdshell beforehand
I've also done a bit of tidying up

---- enable these jobs
---- show advanced options
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

---- enable xp_cmdshell
sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

---- hide advanced options
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 0;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

-- based on http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic6166-5-1.aspx
-- create temporary table
create table #temp_mdf_files
(
full_filename varchar(200)
)

--populate the temp table with any MDF files found
insert #temp_mdf_files
exec xp_cmdshell 'dir c:\*.mdf /s/b'
insert #temp_mdf_files
exec xp_cmdshell 'dir d:\*.mdf /s/b'
insert #temp_mdf_files
exec xp_cmdshell 'dir e:\*.mdf /s/b'

--

select
-- exclude the subdirectory name
upper(reverse(substring(reverse(full_filename ), 1,charindex('\', reverse(full_filename ) )-1) )) As MDF_FileName,
full_filename

from #temp_mdf_files

where
--exclude rows which contain system messages or nulls
full_filename like '%\%'

--exclude system databases
and upper(reverse(substring(reverse(full_filename ), 1,charindex('\', reverse(full_filename ) )-1) ))
not in ('DISTMDL.MDF', 'MASTER.MDF', 'MODEL.MDF', 'MSDBDATA.MDF' , 'MSSQLSYSTEMRESOURCE.MDF', 'TEMPDB.MDF' )

-- MDF filename excluding the subdirectory name
and full_filename
not in (select Upper(FILEname) from sys.SYSdatabases)
order by MDF_FileName

-- Housekeeping
drop table #temp_mdf_files

-- disable these jobs
-- show advanced options
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

-- disable xp_cmdshell
sp_configure 'xp_cmdshell', 0;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

-- hide advanced options
sp_configure 'show advanced options', 0;
GO
RECONFIGURE;
GO

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Lowell

Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2012 6:06 AM

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Jack 95169 (12/18/2012)

Nearly...
You need to enable XP_cmdshell beforehand
I've also done a bit of tidying up

wow Jack you replied to a ten year old thread!

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Jack 95169

Posted Tuesday, December 18, 2012 11:06 AM

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That old? Hope they haven't been waiting all this time for my bug fix...
:o)

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