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[…] Find Hostname and Current Logged In User Name There are two tricks listed in this blog post where users can find out the hostname and current logged user name immediately and very easily. […]

By: Vaishali

Vaishali — Thu, 26 Jul 2012 12:34:00 +0000

Hi Pinal ,

How I can find the logs of Sql server ,when Username is same and hostname is different .

By: JS Arya

JS Arya — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:52:45 +0000

Hi Pinal,

In one of my application i need IP address of the client from Sql server 2000. I know i can do xp_cmdshell but the user by which our application connects does not have rights. Any other way to get IP from sql server 2000 TSql?

By: Jaffer

Jaffer — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:53:12 +0000

how to show the message after updating in store procedure in sql 2008

EG:- Message as : Column value changed from XXXX to YYYY for the ZZZZ

XXXX is the old value
YYYY is the new value

ZZZZ is for in which tab the value is changed. these both XXX,YYY and ZZZ want to display after updatein..

Please give idea

By: ArdentAj

ArdentAj — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 09:44:28 +0000

How to get host name along with domain name in SQL .I have a SQL server installed in a machine named “TestMachine.domain.com but when I use HOST_NAME or server property I am able to retrieve only “TestMachine”

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:15:34 +0000

You can include HostName column as part of profiler result. Open the profiler goto File–>Templates–>Edit templates–>Event selections–>check show all columns–>select HostName

By: abhIShek online4all

abhIShek online4all — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:00:18 +0000

Hi Pinal,

I got Clientprocessid (Host_ID) from sql profiler. how can i know the Host Name from that id?

Thanks in advance,
abhIShek Online4all

By: Amar

Amar — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 17:44:38 +0000

Hi Pinal… I’m stuck in a scenario and hope to get some hint/help here.

I have a shared login used by multiple users and someone dropped a table.

I want to identify – which IP dropped the table & when? WHEN is important as compared to IP because the machine is in the cloud and people normally logon to the cloud server for access. If I can get IP of host computer, that is WOW!

Any help on this matter is highly appreciated.

By: madhivanan

madhivanan — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 12:00:08 +0000

There are at least two options

1 Sp_who
2 Profiler

By: Pavan K

Pavan K — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:13:17 +0000

Hello Pinal:

Is it possible to know who are all accessed the DB, what were the queries they have ran? It should give the results from the DB creation time?

By: Anil Kumar Kanojia

Anil Kumar Kanojia — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:34:30 +0000

How to get the Server Name (SQLServer 2005) without installing SQLServer 2005 client (Query Analyser) i.e. without use of any SQL Query.

By: sreekumar

sreekumar — Thu, 19 May 2011 12:37:00 +0000

how to get hostname and IP of a machine on a citrix or remotedesktop environment on sql server

eg i use a program hosted on citrix environment say excel to connect to my sql server and change some values . i want to know this user on this machine connected to the citrix server to connect to the database and make these changes.

I created an audit trigger which is fired when any change is made to the table and it is properly recording the changes . the question is which machine/ ip address did the user use to login to citrix to do this task .

SELECT @@SPID AS ‘ID’, SYSTEM_USER AS ‘Login Name’, USER AS ‘User Name’,

select client_net_address,local_net_address
from sys.dm_exec_connections where session_id=@@SPID

will still return citrix server how to get the user’s computer

By: Wallace Houston

Wallace Houston — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:21:10 +0000

Good stuff. Now that I know how to get the host_id, I want to send a message to the host calling the proc under certain situations. I’m on Server 08 and no ‘Net Send’. I’ve installed WinSentMessenger but haven’t been able to make it send using SQL code. Supposedly, WinSentMessenger is supposed to work with Net Send commands and using an XP box with Messenger started, the Net Send commands work.

Email is not an option as the workstations calling the proc will not have email access.

Thanx,
Wallace

DECLARE @hostid varchar(20)
SET @hostid = (SELECT HOST_ID())
–print @hostid
DECLARE @SQLmsg nvarchar(2000)
SET @SQLmsg = ‘net send’ + ‘ ‘ + @hostid + ‘ ‘ + ‘my_message’
exec xp_cmdshell @SQLmsg –, no_output

By: sambhu

sambhu — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 06:53:40 +0000

Hello pinal,

I want to retrieve windows nt login name from sql query. My server is installed as mixed mode(sql server and windows).
Can you please tell me how can i get result?

Thanks
Sambhu

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 03 Sep 2010 14:52:47 +0000

@Sushma Shah

Did you get the answer you need?

By: Pascal

Pascal — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:02:14 +0000

Thanks

i find out with:

select HOST_NAME ()
select @@ServerName
and the Port with the configuration

But i have the following message when i try to connect to the database with Netbeans 6.9:

”
Unable to add connection. Cannot establish a connection to
jdbc:sqlserver://Hostname\nom-de-ordinateur\SQLEXPRESS:1433; databaseName=Master using com.microsoft.sqlserver.jdbc.SQLServerdriver (The TCP/IP connection to the host has failed, java.net.ConnectionException: Connection refused: connect).
”

Why? i don’t know, please help-mE@

Th@nks

By: Pascal

Pascal — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 13:23:29 +0000

Hello,
i’m new in programming.
i’m trying to connect to SQL Server Management Studio with NetBeans 6.9 but where could i find :
-Host name?
-Port?
-instance name?

Thank you
SEG

By: Sushma Shah

Sushma Shah — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 16:24:14 +0000

Hi everyone,
I am trying to run an update script on several databases. The condition is I can only run the script if there is no user connected to the database. I have tried using the sysprocesses and doing count of the spid. But it’s not working. Any help is appreciated.
Thanks,
Sushma

By: Paul Oster

Paul Oster — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:30:30 +0000

Using SQL Server 2000, I only find that
SELECT SYSTEM_USER identifies the current logged in user.
None of the queries above work for me.

By: Hari

Hari — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 02:50:08 +0000

While connecting through a ssh tunnel that tunnels localhost:1433 to remotehost:1433 through host2, “select host_name()” returned “localhost” instead of “remotehost”. However, SERVERPROPERTY(‘MachineName’) returned the correct value.

By: Jorge

Jorge — Thu, 01 Apr 2010 14:05:01 +0000

Hi Pinal,

Is there a way to change a hostname connection string from a active connection?

For example:
I have a unique login into the SQL Server that it’s used by my aplication. So, I have a lot of connections ( … count(*) from sys.sysprocesses … ) with the same strings, like below…

spid ecid status loginame hostname blk dbname cmd request_id
—— —— —————————— —————————————————————————————————————————- ——————————————————————————————————————————– —– ——————————————————————————————————————————– —————- ———–
105 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
110 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
184 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
185 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
186 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
187 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
195 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
202 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
203 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0
259 0 sleeping appuser_0027 ares13 0 dados AWAITING COMMAND 0

This way, I cannot know who is under each connections/processes (local machine or people).

Best Regards…

Jorge Silva / Brazil.

By: Anne

Anne — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 02:46:36 +0000

Hi Pinal,
Like Vishwa I am looking at getting either the windows username or the computer name of the user. My front end is an Access adp, and I get the above information using Environ(“USERNAME”) and Environ(“COMPUTERNAME”), but I don’t know how to get it from SQL server to use it in a trigger.
Thanks for your help

By: vishwa

vishwa — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 11:44:44 +0000

hi,
can any one please help me out in getting windows username when logged into server (Server Authentication)

By: hkjhkas

hkjhkas — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 22:51:47 +0000

Pinal,
We can use Serverproperty(‘MachineName’) to see exactly which server you are connected to. And when we run above query it will give my laptop name whichever server I connected.

By: Imran Mohammed

Imran Mohammed — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 04:54:00 +0000

CREATE PROC USP_CHECK_DATABASE_ROLE_USERS
AS
SET NOCOUNT ON
CREATE TABLE #TEMP1 ( UID INT, NAME SYSNAME)
CREATE TABLE #TEMP2 ( ID INT IDENTITY ,UID INT, NAME SYSNAME)
CREATE TABLE #TEMP3 ( USER_NAMES SYSNAME, ROLE_NAMES SYSNAME)
INSERT INTO #TEMP1 SELECT UID, NAME FROM SYSUSERS WHERE SID NOT IN (0X00 , 0X01) AND SID IS NOT NULL
INSERT INTO #TEMP2 SELECT UID, NAME FROM SYSUSERS WHERE SID IS NULL
INSERT INTO #TEMP3 SELECT A.NAME USER_NAMES , B.NAME ROLE_NAMES FROM #TEMP1 A, #TEMP2 B , SYSMEMBERS C WHERE A.UID = MEMBERUID AND B.UID =GROUPUID

DECLARE @VAR INT
DECLARE @VAR2 VARCHAR(128)
DECLARE @CMD VARCHAR(8000)

SET @VAR = 1
SET @CMD = ‘SELECT USER_NAMES,’
WHILE @VAR < = ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #TEMP2 )
BEGIN
SELECT @VAR2 = NAME FROM #TEMP2 WHERE ID = @VAR

IF @VAR =1
BEGIN
SET @CMD = @CMD + ' MAX(CASE ROLE_NAMES WHEN '+''''+@VAR2+'''' +' THEN ''Y'' ELSE ''X'' END ) AS ['+UPPER(@VAR2)+ ']'
END

IF @VAR 1 AND @VAR ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #TEMP2)-1
BEGIN
SET @CMD = @CMD +’ , ‘ + ‘ MAX(CASE ROLE_NAMES WHEN ‘+””+@VAR2+”” +’ THEN ”Y” ELSE ”X” END ) AS ['+UPPER(@VAR2)+ ']‘
END

IF @VAR = ( SELECT COUNT(*) FROM #TEMP2)
BEGIN
SET @CMD = @CMD +’ , ‘ + ‘ MAX(CASE ROLE_NAMES WHEN ‘+””+@VAR2+”” +’ THEN ”Y” ELSE ”X” END ) AS ['+UPPER(@VAR2)+ ']‘+’ FROM #TEMP3 GROUP BY USER_NAMES ‘
END
SET @VAR = @VAR+ 1
END
EXEC (@CMD)
DROP TABLE #TEMP1
DROP TABLE #TEMP2
DROP TABLE #TEMP3
SET NOCOUNT OFF