In this post, I am sharing a TSQL script to find the installation date, time and authentication mode of SQL Server.

The DBA can use below script to find the detail on server properties for different SQL Servers.

You can also use this to prepare a report for different SQL Servers and can compare the server properties.

SELECT 
	createdate AS InstallationDate 
	,CASE SERVERPROPERTY('IsIntegratedSecurityOnly')   
		WHEN 1 THEN 'Windows Authentication'  
		WHEN 0 THEN 'Windows and SQL Server Authentication'  
	END AS AuthenticationMode
	,SERVERPROPERTY('servername') AS ServerName
FROM master.sys.syslogins 
WHERE name LIKE 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM'

In this post, I am sharing a script to find status and last backup time of all databases in SQL Server.
The Database Backup is one of the important tasks for the DBA.

In a big integrated system, there are lots of database and DBA already set some automation and manual process for taking a backup.

But sometimes periodically, it is required to check the status of Database Backup because many times I found that our SQL Server maintenance plan did not execute properly because of an issue with: network, hard-disk.

Using this script DBA can easily find the status of all Database Backups.

SELECT 
	D.name	
	,CASE 
	   WHEN MAX(B.backup_finish_date) IS NULL 
		THEN 'Backup not taken' 
		ELSE CONVERT(VARCHAR(100),MAX(B.backup_finish_date)) 
	END AS LastBackupDate
FROM sys.databases AS D
LEFT OUTER JOIN msdb.dbo.backupset AS B 
	ON D.name = B.database_name AND B.type = 'D'
GROUP BY D.name
ORDER BY 2 DESC

In this post, I am sharing a script to find different SQL Server Properties like Hostname, Instance, Edition, Version, ProductType.

The DBA can use this script to find server properties for various SQL Servers.
You can also use this script to prepare a report for various SQL Servers and also easily compare the difference between those servers.

SELECT 
	SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') AS HostName
	,SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') AS InstanceName
	,SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') AS EditionInfo
	,SERVERPROPERTY('ProductLevel') AS ProductType 
	,CASE SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered') 
		WHEN 1 THEN 'Clustered' 
		ELSE 'StandAlone' 
	END AS SQLServerType
	,@@VERSION AS SQLServerVersion