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Convert binary SID to string

By Todd Engen, 2008/04/02

Total article views: 433 | Views in the last 30 days: 25

Functions such as SUSER_SID() return the binary represenation of the SID. fn_SIDToString converts the binary representation to the string format S-1-5-21-xxxx-yyyy-zzzz-aaaa.

Usage:

SELECT SUSER_NAME(), SUSER_SID(), dbo.fn_SIDToString(SUSER_SID())

 

 

By Todd Engen, 2008/04/02

Total article views: 433 | Views in the last 30 days: 25
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