For more information, see Validate a SQL Server Installation. It can't be used to obtain information about remote servers. The only thing to be aware of is that this tool can be run locally only on the system where SQL Server is installed. These include client tools such as SQL Server Management Studio. This tool gives information about all the instances of SQL Server that are installed on the system. This report can be found by locating the Tools page of SQL Server Installation Center. Method 5: Starting in SQL Server 2008, you can also use the Installed SQL Server Features Discovery report. For a complete list review SERVERPROPERTY (Transact-SQL). Starting with SQL Server 2014 RTM Cumulative Update 10 and SQL Server 2014 Service Pack 1 Cumulative Update 3, additional properties have been added to ServerProperty statement. SQL Server Express can be seamlessly upgraded to other higher end versions of SQL Server. For more information, see the following topic in SQL Server Books Online SERVERPROPERTY (Transact-SQL). This is a larger download than with Tools, as it also includes both Full Text Search and Reporting Services. This method also works for SQL Azure Database instances. This package contains all the components of SQL Server Express including the full version of SQL Server 2012 Management Studio with SP3. If your application requires individual property strings, you can use the SERVERPROPERTY function to return them instead of parsing the results. The SERVERPROPERTY function returns individual properties that relate to the version information, although the function combines the output into one string.
This entry provides all the necessary information about the product, such as version, product level, 64-bit versus 32-bit, the edition of SQL Server, and the OS version on which SQL Server is running. The entries may resemble the following one: 22:31:33.50 Server Microsoft SQL Server 2008 (SP1). By default, the error log is located at Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.n\MSSQL\LOG\ERRORLOG and ERRORLOG.n files.
Method 2: Look at the first few lines of the Errorlog file for that instance. After Object Explorer is connected, it will show the version information in parentheses, together with the user name that is used to connect to the specific instance of SQL Server. Method 1: Connect to the server by using Object Explorer in SQL Server Management Studio. The "revision" information is not typically used when checking version of SQL Server. The version information follows pattern.