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  • September 28, 2012 at 1:24 pm

    #1543603

    You could try:

    SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('ComputerNamePhysicalNetBIOS')

    If that doesn't work, there are SERVERPROPERTY parameters that aren't documented: you might try poking around for some of those and see if any of them help :-).

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