Journey to SQL Authority with Pinal Dave

SERVERPROPERTY is very interesting system function. It returns many of the system values. I use it very frequently to get different server values like Server Collation, Server Name etc.

Run following script to see all the properties of server.
SELECT 'BuildClrVersion' ColumnName, SERVERPROPERTY('BuildClrVersion') ColumnValue
UNION ALL
SELECT 'Collation', SERVERPROPERTY('Collation')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'CollationID', SERVERPROPERTY('CollationID')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ComparisonStyle', SERVERPROPERTY('ComparisonStyle')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS', SERVERPROPERTY('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'Edition', SERVERPROPERTY('Edition')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'EditionID', SERVERPROPERTY('EditionID')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'EngineEdition', SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'InstanceName', SERVERPROPERTY('InstanceName')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'IsClustered', SERVERPROPERTY('IsClustered')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'IsFullTextInstalled', SERVERPROPERTY('IsFullTextInstalled')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'IsIntegratedSecurityOnly', SERVERPROPERTY('IsIntegratedSecurityOnly')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'IsSingleUser', SERVERPROPERTY('IsSingleUser')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'LCID', SERVERPROPERTY('LCID')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'LicenseType', SERVERPROPERTY('LicenseType')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'MachineName', SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'NumLicenses', SERVERPROPERTY('NumLicenses')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ProcessID', SERVERPROPERTY('ProcessID')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ProductVersion', SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ProductLevel', SERVERPROPERTY('ProductLevel')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ResourceLastUpdateDateTime', SERVERPROPERTY('ResourceLastUpdateDateTime')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ResourceVersion', SERVERPROPERTY('ResourceVersion')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'ServerName', SERVERPROPERTY('ServerName')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'SqlCharSet', SERVERPROPERTY('SqlCharSet')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'SqlCharSetName', SERVERPROPERTY('SqlCharSetName')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'SqlSortOrder', SERVERPROPERTY('SqlSortOrder')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'SqlSortOrderName', SERVERPROPERTY('SqlSortOrderName')

ResultSet:
ColumnName ColumnValue
————————— —————————
BuildClrVersion v2.0.50727
Collation SQL_Latin1_General_CP1_CI_AS
CollationID 872468488
ComparisonStyle 196609
ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS SQL
Edition Developer Edition
EditionID -2117995310
EngineEdition 3
InstanceName NULL
IsClustered 0
IsFullTextInstalled 1
IsIntegratedSecurityOnly 0
IsSingleUser 0
LCID 1033
LicenseType DISABLED
MachineName SQL
NumLicenses NULL
ProcessID 3932
ProductVersion 9.00.3054.00
ProductLevel SP2
ResourceLastUpdateDateTime 2007-02-10 00:39:35.480
ResourceVersion 9.00.3042
ServerName SQL
SqlCharSet 1
SqlCharSetName iso_1
SqlSortOrder 52
SqlSortOrderName nocase_iso

(27 row(s) affected)
Reference : Pinal Dave (http://blog.SQLAuthority.com)