May 17, 2016 · FYI the major SQL version numbers are: 8 = SQL 2000; 9 = SQL 2005; 10 = SQL 2008 (and 10.5 = SQL 2008R2) 11 = SQL 2012; 12 = SQL 2014; 13 = SQL 2016; 14 = SQL 2017; And this all works for SQL Azure too! EDITED: You may also want to check your DB compatibility level since it could be set to a lower compatibility.

May 1, 2012 · SQL Server 2008 R2 starts with 10.5 where on my developer machine which I have SQL Server 2008 R2 installed, i found the version number starts with 10.50 Similarly, for SQL Server 2008, according to the website, the version number starts with 10.0 where on my developer machine it starts with 10.00

If you're using SQL Server 2005 (may be 2008, need to double-check) or newer, you can write a .NET CLR method to do the comparison, or better yet, transform an arbitrary version number into a canonical, sortable format (e.g. pad every part to, say, 5 digits); register this CLR method with your DB and you can call it like a regular SQL function.

Jul 6, 2012 · When trying to compare software versions 5.12 to 5.8, version 5.12 is newer, however mathematically 5.12 is less than 5.8. How would I compare the two versions so that a newer version returns 'Y'?

Nov 14, 2011 · The SELECT query is ordering alphabetically, rather than numerically. Without a stored procedure to add leading zeros into the separate components of the version number to make them all the same length, you cannot (AFAIK) do this in SQL.

Just adding to what @Gordon suggested, here's an example with ParseName; WITH tmp AS ( SELECT '1.0.0.5' AS Version UNION ALL SELECT '1.5.0.06' UNION ALL SELECT '1.0.0.06' UNION ALL SELECT '2.0.0.0' UNION ALL SELECT '2.0.1.1' UNION ALL SELECT '15.15.1323.22' UNION ALL SELECT '15.15.622.55' ) SELECT * FROM ( SELECT CAST(PARSENAME(Version, 4) AS INT) AS col1 , CAST(PARSENAME(Version, 3) AS INT ...

Jun 15, 2012 · I have some data in a SQL Server table ... ClientID DecisionID 60043 1466338 60043 1475880 60043 1480017 104563 1468452 106454 1475922 106454 1475922 and I've been asked to add a "version" column for each decision for each client, so e.g. client 60043 would have version 1, 2 and 3, like so ...

I am lucky to be an admin of a server, but I have no idea how many versions of sql server on this server. When I opened the file Microsoft SQL Server, there are files called 80, 90, 100, 110. And I have only found SQL Server 2012 setup, so what's the relationship between the files names like 80, 90, 100, 110 with sql server versions like 2008 ...

Sep 12, 2008 · Result Server Version 8.00 SQL 2000 9.00 SQL 2005 10.00 SQL 2008 10.50 SQL 2008R2 11.00 SQL 2012 12.00 SQL 2014 Basic list of version numbers here , or exhaustive list from Microsoft here . Share

I can only presume the version numbers refer to something of significance inside of SqlServer, but I'm having trouble believing that there have been that many releases/patches/upgrades to SqlServer since 2000. Moreover, I don't recall ever seeing SQL Server version numbers expressed in three digits in the ranges indicated.