Checking availability group status using a Central Management Server
Today I want to show you another powerful way to use your Central Management Server. The CMS can also be used to execute OPENROWSET queries over your complete SQL Server Farm. Now I can hear you all say: “Why would you want to do that?” and “OPENROWSET, you know that you shouldn’t implement that for queries that have to run frequently!”. And to be honest, in most of the cases you’d be right. But it can come in extremely useful in some situations.
