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garga1



Joined: 07 Mar 2012
Posts: 3
PostPosted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 6:51 pm    Post subject: Is RedGate backup tool activated? Reply with quote
Hi,
We use RedGate backup tool in our environment to backup giant databases. Our entire team has permissions to install the tool on the servers they are responsible for. When the license limit is reached, the activation fails. So far so good. But it becomes a nightmare for me to find out where it is installed and more important, licensed. I can run this query in SSMS on a SQL Server group of servers to find out if the tool is installed:

SELECT NAME FROM MASTER..sysobjects WHERE NAME LIKE '%sqlbackup%'

and it gives me, say, 20 servers. But how to know if all those 20 are licensed or trial versions?

I don't want to RDP into every server to find this out. Thru command line, registry read or sql query would be the desired solution.

Please help.
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petey



Joined: 24 Apr 2005
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 2:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
Try this:
Code:
DECLARE @licensetype INT
DECLARE @version varchar(16)
DECLARE @serialnumber varchar(64)
EXEC master..sqbutility 1021, @licensetype OUT, @version OUT, @serialnumber OUT
SELECT    @@servername server,
   CASE @licensetype WHEN 0 THEN 'Expired trial'
           WHEN 1 THEN 'Trial'
           WHEN 2 THEN 'Standard'
           WHEN 3 THEN 'Professional'
           WHEN 4 THEN 'Beta'
           WHEN 6 THEN 'Lite'
           WHEN 8 THEN 'Read-only'
   END AS license,
   @version version, @serialnumber serialnumber

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garga1



Joined: 07 Mar 2012
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 3:49 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
Perfect solution. Thank you so much.
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