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())
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