Another Service Pack Question

  • Is there any way of telling which hotfixes as well as SPs have been applied to a SQL Server?

    As far as I am aware there is no way of finding this information via the database.

    I know you can find the current patch level but would like to know what other hotfixes have been installed on the server.

    Thanks in advance

     

    Carl

     

  • SQL Server you can usually tell by the results of @@VERSION. Or are you speaking of the OS?

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

  • Hi Brian

    I am aware that @@VERSION tells you the current patch level but it doesn't tell you what hotfixes have been installed, just what the current level is.

     

     

  • Most tend to be cumulative... kind like how they deal with DNS. Closest thing to versioning:

    SQL Server Version Database

    About the only other thing you can do is find out what files were affected by a given hotfix and then check those files. Wouldn't be too hard to do, but I don't know anyone who has coded that up in a utility.

    K. Brian Kelley
    @kbriankelley

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