I'm trying to write a UDF that returns version information, and to make a long story short, I was executing:
SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('EditionID')
...and getting back a value of -133711905. In BOL (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174396.aspx ), the table for 'EditionID' is:
-1253826760 = Desktop -1592396055 = Express -1534726760 = Standard 1333529388 = Workgroup 1804890536 = Enterprise -323382091 = Personal -2117995310 = Developer 610778273 = Enterprise Evaluation 1044790755 = Windows Embedded SQL 4161255391 = Express with Advanced Services Base data type: int
Hmmm... my value doesn't appear? After an embarressing amount of bit twiddling, I finally noticed that the last value in the table, 4161255391, and the value I was getting, -133711905, were actually the same: 0xF807B7DF. Okay, I mused, it's a signed/unsigned issue - but SQL Server doesn't have any unsigned 32-bit integers. That's when I noticed that 4161255391 was an awful big number to be a 32-bit signed integer (a.k.a., INT). So, this is a "documentation bug": the table should use the signed -133711905 value, not the unsigned 4161255391. Maybe this will help someone else.
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