I’ve just uploaded a new minor release of dbdesc. This version adds a couple of command line switches to facilitate the integration of dbdesc in custom scripts.

Now you can type:

dbdesc SqlServer -Ls

It will output all the SQL Server instances visible from your computer. Also you can use -Ld to list the databases stored in a server:

dbdesc SqlServer -S Server1 -Ld

I’ve also changed the code to discover SQL Server instances on the network. The old one used a special ODBC network call which sometimes was unable to discover some servers. Now I’m using the .NET 2.0 API that should work much better.

As always, this is a free update for registered customers. Simply download and run the new installer and it will update any previous version of dbdesc.