Full site membership is required for this article. Already a full member? Login here. You currently have a guest membership. You can upgrade to full site membership here (free trial available). Registry manipulation from SQL Server   Article Abstract: (Vadivel Mohanakrishnan) Registry Manupulation from SQL Server is pretty easy. There are 4 extended stored procedure in SQL Server 2000 for this purpose. This article explains in detail about those. It also have code snippet to fetch the CD Key of SQL Server from registry.   Read this article...

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RE: Registry manipulation from SQL Server
(posted: 5/20/2004 12:00:06 PM)
I ran the code to get the CD key and got the following error message. What is wrong?

Msg 22001, Level 1, State 22001
RegOpenKeyEx() returned error 2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.'

(0 row(s) affected)