Question

Last night one of our SQL servers developed some major problems and after a colleague stopped, started, and all the usual things it started checking and rebuilding databases and is now running an extended stored procedure called “xp_qv”.

The internet seems to be very short of information on what this procedure does or anythign like that so I was hoping somebody here might be able to help.

I should add that I assume it is meant to be running so the question isn’t “Can I stop it” or anything like that, its just curiosity in what it is doing in the hope that it will help determine how long before things are usable again…

Answer 1

This is the only information I could find..

xp_qv, hosted in xpsqlbot.dll is a
wrapper around functionality in
sqlboot.dll, which returns information
about the SKU type, licensing etc It
is not documented that is why you can
not find a reference.