What are those curious properties that I've found in my sqlConnection?

Question

Whilst investigating a very dull and exponetially security flawful 2005 project, I debugged into a connection hang.
Inspecting the object, to find the server name, I've encountered this three little properties:

• IsShiloh
• IsKatmaiOrNewer
• IsYukonOrNewer

What are those members and why are they so awesomely named?

Misplace

Yukon is the old codename for sql server 2005. – Fredella

"Katmai" was SQL Server 2008's code-name, "Shiloh" was SQL Server 2000 – Baez

Answer 1

I believe these are all different codenames for different versions of SQL Server. The Wikipedia article for SQL Server lists the different codenames:

8.0     2000    SQL Server 2000     Shiloh
9.0     2005    SQL Server 2005     Yukon
10.0    2008    SQL Server 2008     Katmai

Also, just for funsies, the codenames follow a National Park naming pattern.

Wittie