Configuring SQL Server 2012 : Setting the Options (part 2) - Configuring the Database

Configuring the Database

The database-level options configure the current database's behavior regarding ANSI compatibility and recovery.

Most database options can be set in Management Studio within the Database Properties page, which you can find by right-clicking a database in the console tree and choosing Properties from the context menu. Figure 2 shows the Options tab.

Figure 2 Use Management Studio's Database Properties Options tab to configure the most common database properties.

The database configuration options can be set using T-SQL ALTER DATABASE SET options. The following example sets the AdventureWorks database to single user mode to obtain exclusive access.

ALTER DATABASE AdventureWorks SET SINGLE_USER;

View database configuration options using the sys.databases catalog view or the DATABASEPROPERTYEX() function. The following example returns all the database properties of the AdventureWorks database:

SELECT * FROM sys.databases WHERE name = ‘AdventureWorks';