Being as I am only a part time SQL Server DBA and do not code T-SQL or any other SQL Server applications when would you need to use a function like this.

I also think the article should explicitly point out that this is not useful with the SA id

sa0x01NULL

edssa0x53B7A2241A3E894183F6B64ABA75209ES-83-440305985-1253504643-2652927418

-- Mark D Powell --