How to Find a Device's Virtual Device Number

The commands to create a procedure called sp_vdevno, which finds the virtual device number of a given device, are shown below.

sp_vdevno returns results similar to the following:

1> sp_vdevno
2> go

vdevno       name         status
----------   ---–-------  ------
         0   master            2
         4   user_disk4        3

WARNING! The sp_vdevno stored procedure is provided for your information-it is not supported at this time.

The sp_helpdevice stored procedure reports similar information.