SDU Tools: SQL Server Type

Our free SDU Tools for developers and DBAs, now includes a very large number of tools, with procedures, functions, and views. A request that I had a while back was to have a function that returned what type of SQL Server the code was being executed on. So we added the SQLServerType function.

It takes no parameters.

As this is an enumerated value, it’s just a CASE statement.

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You can see it in action in the main image above, and in the video here. The full current version of the code is also shown below:

You can use our tools as a set or as a great example of how to write functions like these.

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http://sdutools.sqldownunder.com

Latest version of the code

Note: the code might wrap when displayed below.

CREATE FUNCTION SDU_Tools.SQLServerType()
RETURNS nvarchar(40)
AS
BEGIN

-- Function:      Returns the type of SQL Server for the current session
-- Parameters:    Nil
-- Action:        Returns the type of SQL Server for the current session
-- Return:        nvarchar(40)
-- Refer to this video: https://youtu.be/tASWb2eN-8w
--
-- Test examples: 
/*

SELECT SDU_Tools.SQLServerType();

*/
    RETURN CASE SERVERPROPERTY('EngineEdition')
                WHEN 1 THEN N'Desktop'
                WHEN 2 THEN N'Standard'
                WHEN 3 THEN N'Enterprise'
                WHEN 4 THEN N'Express'
                WHEN 5 THEN N'Azure SQL Database'
                WHEN 6 THEN N'Azure Synapse Analytics'
                WHEN 8 THEN N'Azure SQL Managed Instance'
                WHEN 9 THEN N'Azure SQL Edge'
                WHEN 11 THEN N'Azure Synapse Serverless Pool'
                ELSE N'Unknown'
           END;
END;

2025-02-19