Database option descriptions

All users with access to the master database can execute sp_dboption with no parameters to display a list of the database options. The report from sp_dboption looks like this:

sp_dboption
Settable database options. 
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abort tran on log full 
allow nulls by default 
auto identity
dbo use only 
ddl in tran 
identity in nonunique index
no chkpt on recovery 
no free space acctg 
read only 
select into/bulkcopy/pllsort
single user 
trunc log on chkpt
trunc. log on chkpt.
unique auto_identity index

For a report on which options have been set in a particular database, execute sp_helpdb in that database.

The following sections describe each database option in detail.