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So I installed a trial of SQL Server 2008 enterprise edition while waiting for MSDN licenses to come through – I now want to uninstall the trial and replace it with a developer edition installation.
However, I’d like to first know how long I have left on the trial. Is there a way to do this programmatically with SQL? I looked at create_date in sys.databases, but these give dates that are in 2003 (which is, I guess, when master and model were originally created).
See http://mangalpardeshi.blogspot.com/2009/05/expiration-date-of-sql-server.html
Edit: Just spotted you want to do this programatically. Guess you could start a profiler trace then open management studio to see how it gets this info!