RE: SUSER_NAME() vs SUSER_SNAME()

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April 12, 2011 at 6:52 am

I think you are supposed to use SUSER_SNAME() in most situations.

i believe the difference is SUSER_SNAME() would return a domain\username for those people who are not explicitly on the server, but only get access through an inherited role;

so if you grant a windows role access, SUSER_SNAME() would return results, but SUSER_NAME() is blank, because that user is not explicitly in the sys.server_principals table, right?

Lowell

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