How can a client application get serial number of SQL server installation

I want to write an application, which will be validated by serial number.
This serial number has to be dependent on serial number, which
is used during SQL Server installation.
In other words - licence key for my client application has to be dependent
on server.
How can my client application get server validation key or another server
specific information (such harddisk serial number of the server, network
adapter card serial number etc)?
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Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.comYou can get the serial number of the SQL Server installation from the
registry key:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Microsoft SQL Server\80\Registration\CD_KEY.
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Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP
"Jaroslav Sedlak via SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com> wrote in message
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>I want to write an application, which will be validated by serial number.
> This serial number has to be dependent on serial number, which
> is used during SQL Server installation.
> In other words - licence key for my client application has to be dependent
> on server.
> How can my client application get server validation key or another server
> specific information (such harddisk serial number of the server, network
> adapter card serial number etc)?
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> Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com|||Yes, you are right. But this doesn't solve my problem. This registry key
can be read only by an application, which runs on the server.
I want to get licence key of SQL server in application which runs not on
the machine server but on the client machine.
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Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com|||You can access the registry from within SQL Server with the undocumented
extended procedure xp_regread. See
http://www.databasejournal.com/features/mssql/article.php/1441251
for more details.
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Jacco Schalkwijk
SQL Server MVP
"Jaroslav Sedlak via SQLMonster.com" <forum@.SQLMonster.com> wrote in message
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> Yes, you are right. But this doesn't solve my problem. This registry key
> can be read only by an application, which runs on the server.
> I want to get licence key of SQL server in application which runs not on
> the machine server but on the client machine.
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> Message posted via http://www.sqlmonster.com