I was glad when I discovered this Extended Stored Procedure myself. I always used different syntax to retrieve server information. Many of information I was looking up using system information of the windows operating system.
Syntax:
EXEC xp_msver
ResultSet:
Index Name Internal_Value Character_Value
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1 ProductName NULL Microsoft SQL Server
2 ProductVersion 589824 9.00.3042.00
3 Language 1033 English (United States)
4 Platform NULL NT INTEL X86
5 Comments NULL NT INTEL X86
6 CompanyName NULL Microsoft Corporation
7 FileDescription NULL SQL Server Windows NT
8 FileVersion NULL 2005.090.3042.00
9 InternalName NULL SQLSERVR
10 LegalCopyright NULL © Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved.
11 LegalTrademarks NULL Microsoft® is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Windows(TM) is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation
12 OriginalFilename NULL SQLSERVR.EXE
13 PrivateBuild NULL NULL
14 SpecialBuild 199360512 NULL
15 WindowsVersion 170393861 5.1 (2600)
16 ProcessorCount 1 1
17 ProcessorActiveMask 1 00000001
18 ProcessorType 586 PROCESSOR_INTEL_PENTIUM
19 PhysicalMemory 1023 1023 (1073111040)
20 Product ID NULL NULL
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Reference : Pinal Dave (https://blog.sqlauthority.com), BOL
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Thanks for this – this is very useful. Do you know how to get more information about the SQL Server install – such as which components, etc have been installed, i.e. Reporting Services, etc??