I need to determine programmatically if the database supports the Geography data type and Spatial indexes. These features were introduced in 2008. I also need to determine if CLR is enabled as these features rely on it. What is the most reliable way to do this?
SQL Server 2008 is 10.x
You can use SERVERPROPERTY in SQL and query sys.configurations
SELECT
PARSENAME(CAST(SERVERPROPERTY('ProductVersion') AS varchar(20)), 3) AS MajorVersion,
value_in_use
FROM
sys.configurations
WHERE
name = 'clr enabled';
Edit: added CAST