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Who am I?

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October 6, 2025 at 12:00 am

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Thomas Franz Hall of Fame Points: 3952 More actions · Answer 1

When you want it 100% correct, you should use ORIGINAL_LOGIN().

A sysadmin has the privilege to inpersonate another account (I use this sometimes to check permissions).

And only ORIGINAL_LOGIN() would return my own username instead of 'whoever', and particularly in auditing you want to know who it REALLY was

EXECUTE AS LOGIN = 'whoever';
SELECT CURRENT_USER, SYSTEM_USER, ORIGINAL_LOGIN()
REVERT;

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God is real, unless declared integer.

Jeff Moden SSC Guru Points: 1004649 More actions · Answer 2

Thomas Franz wrote:

When you want it 100% correct, you should use ORIGINAL_LOGIN().

Especially when, IMHO, people use that nasty little word of "audit" like they did in this question.

--Jeff Moden

RBAR is pronounced "ree-bar" and is a "Modenism" for Row-By-Agonizing-Row.
First step towards the paradigm shift of writing Set Based code:
________Stop thinking about what you want to do to a ROW... think, instead, of what you want to do to a COLUMN.

Change is inevitable... Change for the better is not.

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