Same Query Across Multiple Servers

[jmiridium]

I would like to run the following query on multiple servers and enter the results into one table:

SELECT
            SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') AS [ServerName],
            SERVERPROPERTY('ServerName') AS [ServerInstanceName],
            SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') AS [Instance],
            SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') AS [Edition],
            SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') AS [ProductVersion],
            Left(@@Version, Charindex('-', @@version) - 2) As VersionName

Is this possible?

[prathy · Accepted solution]

Hi,

What you need is a query with all server names you want to get server information for. Then you can create a function in Power Query / Power BI query editor like below

let
    Source = (ServerName as any) => let
        Source = Sql.Database(ServerName, "master", [Query="SELECT#(lf)            SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') AS [ServerName],#(lf)            SERVERPROPERTY('ServerName') AS [ServerInstanceName],#(lf)            SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName') AS [Instance],#(lf)            SERVERPROPERTY('Edition') AS [Edition],#(lf)            SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') AS [ProductVersion],#(lf)            Left(@@Version, Charindex('-', @@version) - 2) As VersionName"])
    in
        Source
in
    Source

Above query is using ServerName parameter. Once you have the function, you can invoke function in query editor, chosse servername column as the value for function. which will enable you run that function for all servers at the same time.

Hope that helps!

Thanks,

Prathy

[jmiridium]

How do I enter multiple servers in the input field?

[v-qiuyu-msft]

Hi @jmiridium,

The query you provided can return one record each time. You can utilize @prathy's suggestion to define a custom function and invoke to return multiple tables contain each server information per table, then use the Append Queries to merge those table to one. Please follow below steps:

1. Create a Blank Query, type the query suggested by @prathy.

2. Please enter the server name and click Invoke, it will return one table contains information when query executed on that specific server. You can invoke this function multiple times to return multiple tables.

3. Use Merge Query as New feature.

4. You can set those table generated by invoke function not load to table and only load append table by unchecking Enable Load.

Please see attached .pbix file.

Best Regards,
Qiuyun Yu

[jmiridium]

This sorta worked, but I appended the query due to multiple servers that needed this query to run on and create a single table

[jmiridium]

Trying to do the same thing with MySQL. Getting this error:

Formula.Firewall: Query 'ENTMYSQLCC' (step 'Appended Query') references other queries or steps, so it may not directly access a data source. Please rebuild this data combination.