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SERVERPROPERTY (''Servername'') vs @@ServerName

  • January 12, 2005 at 1:31 pm

    #162260

    Is SERVERPROPERTY ('Servername') the proper method rather than @@ServerName?  Both methods should return the same value but @@ServerName is not always correct.  Is @@ServerName provided for backward compatability only?

  • January 12, 2005 at 1:54 pm

    #537144

    The biggest difference is ServerProperty('ServerName') reports network name.  @@Servername does not.

     

    So my understanding is if you change the name of your SQL Server, it will not be reflected with @@Servername unless you sp_addserver and sp_dropserver (which are for backward compatabilities sake)

     

  • January 13, 2005 at 3:31 am

    #537222

    @@SERVERNAME queries the table sysservers, hence why sp_addserver etc is required.

    Correctly:

    ServerProperty('ServerName') does not return the network name. It returns "machinename\sqlinstancename" or "machinename" if the default instance.

    ServerProperty('MachineName') gives the actual server network name

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