Question

I am looking for a SQL Query which will help me differentiate between the various versions of SQL Server:

2000/2005/2008

Development/Standard/EE.

Answer 1

I tend to use this short script:

SELECT  
    SERVERPROPERTY('productversion') as 'Product Version', 
    SERVERPROPERTY('productlevel') as 'Patch Level',  
    SERVERPROPERTY('edition') as 'Product Edition',
    SERVERPROPERTY('buildclrversion') as 'CLR Version',
    SERVERPROPERTY('collation') as 'Default Collation',
    SERVERPROPERTY('instancename') as 'Instance',
    SERVERPROPERTY('lcid') as 'LCID',
    SERVERPROPERTY('servername') as 'Server Name'

which gives me an output something like:

Product Version Patch Level Product Edition             CLR Version Default Collation   Instance    LCID    Server Name
10.0.2531.0     SP1         Developer Edition (64-bit)  v2.0.50727  Latin1_General_CI_AS    NULL    1033    XYZABC