Posted On July 8, 2019

PowerShell: 1-Liner to Discover SQL Servers on the Network

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Run this command on server with SQL CLI installed (this will only detect SQL servers that has the SQL Service Discovery enabled)

PS C:\Windows\system32> [System.Data.Sql.SqlDataSourceEnumerator]::Instance.GetDataSources()

ServerName InstanceName IsClustered Version
---------- ------------ ----------- -------
TESTSQL01 SQLEXPRESS No 14.0.1000.169
TESTSQL02 SQLEXPRESS No 12.0.2000.8
TESTSQL02 SQLEXPRESS01 No 14.0.1000.169
TESTSQL02 SWPDM No 12.0.4100.1

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