Find the List of the SQL Servers running on a network

I had requirement to find list of all the SQL Server installed on local network then I found few very useful commands. Here sharing with you all. You can use sqlcmd, osql and isql with the -L option as shown below. Using sqlcmd -L Servers: SQLServer1 SQLServer2\DBServer SQLServer3\ReportServer SQLServer4\SQLExpress SQLServer5 Using osql -L Servers: SQLServer1 SQLServer2\DBServer SQLServer3\ReportServer SQLServer4\SQLExpress SQLServer5 Using isql -L Locally configured servers: –None– Announced network servers: SQLServer1 SQLServer2 SQLServer3 SQLServer4 SQLServer5 Note: sqlcmd  and osql is able

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