>>why would this not give me a list of all db's on a MS SQL Server 2008 server?
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>>select CATALOG_NAME from INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA where SCHEMA_NAME='dbo'
>
>In SQL 2000 the INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMATA wasn't complaint with SQL Standard. It has been fixed starting with SQL 2005.
>In SQL 2005 and later you can use

>SELECT name FROM sys.databases
>

I'm using MS Sql Server 2008 which should work right? But it doesn't. It only returns a single record for master even though there are many databases on the server.

I switched to use the select name from sys.databases and it works... I think I was trying to use a cross-DB statement here as this doesn't work in MySQL. Guess I'll just have 2 different statements depending on backend.


Thanks.