Friday, March 23, 2012
Retrieving user defined Role name
Greetings,
GodofredoIs it not clear? I just want to retrieve a user defined Role
Greets,
geoff|||I'd use sp_helpuser (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/tsqlref/ts_sp_help_45o2.asp).
-PatP
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Retrieve the version of SQL Server from within a user defined function
EXEC master.dbo.xp_msver ProductVersion can be used to return the server version in a resultset. I need this to do some conditional coding between varchar and varchar(max) in a UDF, so size of the text I return must be different between the SQL2000 and SQL2005.
I cant call an xp_ that returns a resultset within a UDF can I, so how can I get the SQL version?
have you tried
select serverproperty('ProductVersion') as character_value
Denis the SQL Menace
http://sqlservercode.blogspot.com/
You can use @.@.Version within a user defined function. I tested the following code in both SQL 2000 and SQL 2005. Hope this helps.
Alter Function dbo.VersionNumber()
Returns int
As
Begin
Declare @.Temp VarChar(1000)
Declare @.Output Int
Select @.Temp = @.@.Version
Set @.Temp = Replace(Left(@.Temp, CharIndex('-', @.Temp)-1), 'Microsoft SQL Server', '')
If IsNumeric(@.Temp) =1
Set @.Output = Convert(int, @.Temp)
Else
Set @.Output = 0
Return @.Output
End
go
Select dbo.VersionNumber()
|||serverproperty works very nicely, thanks.
I had tried @.@.VERSION, which worked, but not pleasant. Now changed to serverproperty