My favorite event at Microsoft's TechEd 2008 conference held in Orlando this year was a roundtable discussion about automating DBA work with several other SQL Server experts.  The session was moderated by Allen White and included myself, Dan Jones (of Microsoft), Steve Jones (of SQL Server Central fame), and Buck Woody (also of Microsoft, ...

I frequently see questions like this – ”I am getting different version numbers for my SQL Server 2000 instances. All I'm aware of is 8.00.2039 - which is SP4.  These are these values I am getting, e.g. 8.00.2039, 8.00.2040, and 8.00.2148”?   Here are two great resources to help you out in the ...