Question

I need to find out the version of an assembly deployed to an SQL Server database.
I need to do it via script or other programmatic way to know if i need to redeploy the assembly.

Any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

This should help out..

Syntax
ASSEMBLYPROPERTY(‘assembly_name’, ‘property_name’)
assembly_name Is the name of the assembly.

property_name Is the name of a property about which to retrieve
information. property_name can be one
of the following values.

Value
CultureInfo Locale of the assembly.
PublicKey Public key or public key token of the assembly.
MvID Complete, compiler-generated version
identification number of the assembly.

VersionMajor Major component (first part) of the four-part version
identification number of the assembly.

VersionMinor Minor component (second part) of the four-part version
identification number of the assembly.

VersionBuild Build component (third part) of the four-part version
identification number of the assembly.

VersionRevision Revision component (fourth part) of the
four-part version identification
number of the assembly.
SimpleName Simple name of the assembly.
Architecture Processor architecture of the assembly.
CLRName Canonical string that encodes the simple name, version
number, culture, public key, and
architecture of the assembly. This
value uniquely identifies the assembly
on the common language runtime (CLR)
side.