How to get configuration and properties for your SQL server e.g version, type, licence type, collation

Use the SERVERPROPERTY function with a parameter. There are 30 (ish) of them so the follow gets them all or just cut and past the one you need.

Run this in any DB


SET NOCOUNT ON
SELECT 'BuildClrVersion' as PropertyName ,SERVERPROPERTY('BuildClrVersion') as PoprertyValue
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')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'FilestreamShareName',SERVERPROPERTY('FilestreamShareName')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'FilestreamConfiguredLevel',SERVERPROPERTY('FilestreamConfiguredLevel')
UNION ALL
SELECT 'FilestreamEffectiveLevel',SERVERPROPERTY('FilestreamEffectiveLevel')

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