From: Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer@...>
Date: 2012-07-15T03:48:31+09:00
Subject: Re: detect ms sqlserver status

On 7/14/2012 8:33 PM, Edward QU wrote:
> Eliezer
> Thanks for your reply, actually, I just want to know if this sql server
> is live well or locked.
>
> Edward
>
what locked means? Locked on a firewall level?
if so you can use the tcp-ping or just plain TCPclient socket and verify 
it almost the same way you have done.
it will just make it in a lower level that requires only socket and not dbi.

Eliezer

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