In case you need to find out the version of the SQL Server installed on a server you could execute the following statement:
SELECT @@VERSION;
Which returns on my development sandbox the following string:
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 - 9.00.2047.00 (Intel X86) Apr 14 2006 01:12:25 Copyright (c) 1988-2005 Microsoft Corporation Developer Edition on Windows NT 5.1 (Build 2600: Service Pack 2)
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