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    Hi, I have a PowerShell Script that installs Service Packs and CU's for SQL Server 2005.  However I am finding a discrepency between the FileInfo Product Version of SQL 2005 SP's and CU's.  Here is a PS snippet

    function GetFileProductVersion ([string]$filename)
{
  $info = [system.Diagnostics.FileVersionInfo]::GetVersionInfo($filename)
  $script:ProductVersion = $info.productversion
  Log "Patch product version is $script:ProductVersion"
}

    What I am wanting to do is to check ahead of time before I even attempt to apply a given patch and determine if it is needed by comparing the Product Version of the patch with the current applied version of the given SQL 2005 Server.  I get the Server version via the following TSQL

    SELECT SERVERPROPERTY ('productversion') AS Version

    Here is the problem, everything works fine as long as it is an SP but I have yet to find the correct product version information for any of the files that are in a CU.  Why is the Product Version WRONG for all the SQL 2005 CU's?  Or is there a way to get the correct product version information from a given Hotfix, CU patch file? 

     

     

    Thanks, -ja
    Thursday, February 24, 2011 1:29 AM

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    For files, use the core file "sqlservr.exe" that is located under each SQL instance directory.  For example,

    C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.1\MSSQL\Binn\sqlservr.exe

    For connection to SQL Server, use one of T-SQL queries as below.

    SELECT

     

    @@VERSION AS 'SQL Server Version'

    Both tell the detail of version number including SP and CU that are installed to SQL server instance.

    Best Regards.

    Yuhong

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    Wednesday, March 2, 2011 7:35 PM
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    For SQL Server versions of every hotfix, you may ref: http://www.sqlsecurity.com/FAQs/SQLServerVersionDatabase/tabid/63/Default.aspx
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    Thursday, March 3, 2011 9:46 AM
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    hi John, did Yuhong and I answered your question? Anything still not clear or we also could help?
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    Friday, June 10, 2011 2:22 AM