I am using SQL Server 2000 and SQL authentication in a web
appliacation. All data access is done via single SQL Server account.
In my front end I am using forms authentication. Is there a way to
retrieve the forms identity (or just a username) from SQL Server?

Thanks,
Lac

SQL can only know what's passed through the connection string, which
will be the SQL username.

Of course, there might be a solution if you describe more of the
problem; are you trying to log user activity? Do you just need to know
when a certain user is logged on or off?

Stu

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(lac@myrealbox.com) writes:
> I am using SQL Server 2000 and SQL authentication in a web
> appliacation. All data access is done via single SQL Server account.
> In my front end I am using forms authentication. Is there a way to
> retrieve the forms identity (or just a username) from SQL Server?

Yes, but the form has to cooperate, and do this:

DECLARE @bin varbinary(128)
SELECT @bin = convert(varbinary(128), 'Username')
SET CONTEXT_INFO @bin

Then you can retrieve the username in SQL Server this way:

DECLARE @username varchar(128)
SELECT @username = convert(varchar(128), context_info)
FROM master.dbo.sysprocesses
WHERE spid = @@spid

Note that on SQL 2005, you should replace the access to sysprocesses to
use the built-in function context_info(). (Which unfortunately is not
available in SQL 2000.)

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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se

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