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c#sql-serverauditmulti-user

Get application username for Audit table

I want to implement an audit table and I have no idea how am I supposed to get the username.

I am using C# and Sql Server. I have a Users table in my database. When I log in my windows form application I verify if the correct combination of username and password is used. But how do I inform the database of the current user? I thought of adding an extra column to my Users table in which to set on 1 the logged username. Is that a solution for single-user? But my application in supposed to support multi-user. What could be done in this case?

Solution 
  • DECLARE @username varchar(128)
    SET @username = CONVERT(VarChar(128), CONTEXT_INFO());
    PRINT @username
    DECLARE @ID_User int
    SET @ID_User = ( SELECT Users.ID_User
                       FROM Users
                         WHERE Users.Username=@username )
    PRINT @ID_User

    This is how I solved it. I inserted this piece of code in each update trigger.