Technical Article

Get session id by Login Name

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a Procedure to get the SQL sid for a Login
either SQL standard or WINDOWS authenticated

CREATE PROCEDURE sp_get_sid
    @loginamesysname
AS
DECLARE @sid varbinary(85)

IF (charindex('\', @loginame) = 0) 
SELECT SUSER_SID(@loginame) AS 'SQL User ID'
ELSE BEGIN
SELECT @sid=get_sid('\U'+@loginame, NULL) 
IF @sid IS NULL
    SELECT @sid=get_sid('\G'+@loginame, NULL) -- Maybe it's a group
IF @sid IS NULL BEGIN
  RAISERROR('Couldn''t find an ID for the specified loginame',16,10)
          RETURN -1
        END ELSE SELECT @sid AS 'NT User ID' 
RETURN 0
END

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