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ericyang1991 NO[at]SPAM hotmail.com
10/29/2004 4:23:40 PM

sql server (alternate): Hi,

Is it possible to know workstation name from data in column
net_address from master..sysprocesses?

Re: How to find out workstation name from net_address

John Bell
10/30/2004 4:07:52 PM

Hi

The hostname column in sysprocesses will contain the workstation name,
net_address is a MAC address which you would have to resolve through
something like arp.

John

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Re: How to find out workstation name from net_address

Erland Sommarskog
10/30/2004 10:34:45 PM

Eric Yang (ericyang1991@hotmail.com) writes:
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As John said, you can use the hostname column. However, this column is
not 100% reliable, as this is set through application code, and the
application can lie about it.

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