Finding the physical name of a clustered database instance

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	Finding the physical name of a clustered database instance

Osolage

2-16-2009 9:10 AM

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mssql, sql server, t-sql, system functions, dba

Osolage says:

One of my teammates wanted me to investigate a server problem today. It was a clustered database instance. I wanted to remote into the box, but I didn't know what the phsical machine name was. So I used the SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS') to figure it out.

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