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Dreaded Documentation.

  • June 28, 2013 at 8:44 am

    #275700

    Its that dreaded time. The IT manager just handed me a long list of of all the servers that are probably running SQL and wants me to get him some basic documentation. Is anyone aware of a tool that can automagically work through a list of severs and record server/instance/db information to a central management server.

    I've looked a few offerings and they don't offer everything i want. Either they just work per instance or db, or they just export to a doc or flat file. I'm not interested in some fancy word/html/excel output just return the results to a db to report on demand.

  • June 28, 2013 at 9:13 am

    #1628324

    Not a magic tool to do the job, but sounds like something you could maybe knock up pretty quickly in PowerShell.

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  • June 28, 2013 at 9:17 am

    #1628325

    hopefully you'll get a stack of options;

    Here's one: this procedure returns a table of HTML-formatted information that documents some server settings, and object details of the currently scoped database:

    Link To sp_dbDocumentation.txt

    it has a dependency to a stored procedure which scripts a TABLE or objects DDL as a varchar string I created here:

    Link To sp_GetDDL_Latest.txt

    it's an enhancement of this shallowabove's [/url]contribution:

    http://www.sqlservercentral.com/scripts/Miscellaneous/31005/

    and it produces well formed HTML output that looks like this:

    Sample HTML Output DEV223_master.html

    because it looks pretty, it usually solves some of the documentation requirements pretty quickly and easily. Hope this helps you out, along with any other posts folks can add!

    Lowell

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