instance list

[jrandall]

How does one manage the SQL Server instance list? I want to delete/drop a SQL Server instance ( 2 actually) that no longer exists. I can add an instance, how do I drop one?

[Matthew Flatt]

Hi Jrandall,

From what I'm aware there isn't a guaranteed way of removing servers from this list. It seems to get cached eventually disappears after a period of time. Have you tried rebooting the machine that runs SQL Dependency Tracker? I know that has worked previously but not all of the time.

Sorry I can't be more help!
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Matthew Flatt
Test Engineer, HyperBac

[jrandall]

I'm running Dependency Tracker on my laptop. It gets rebooted daily. I hadn't run Dependency Tracker in weeks.

[Matthew Flatt]

Hi,

Do you have those servers still added to SSMS/Enterprise Manager/Query Analyzer? If they are added there that would cause them to always appear in the Dependency Tracker list. Removing them may do the trick. Also if you let SSMS/EM search for servers do those appear?

Thanks
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Matthew Flatt
Test Engineer, HyperBac

[jrandall]

Finally figured this out. I had previously removed those servers from my alias list in SQL Server Configuration Mgr. Forgot I still had them listed as Registered Servers in SSMS. That is where Dependency Tracker was picking them up. When I deleted them as registered servers, they no longer appeared in Dependency Tracker