Question

We’re trying to pinpoint the source of some unexpected updates happening on a SQL Server table. What I’d like to do is create a trigger on that table monitoring that column we’re interested in, and when updates occur, write some audit info into a separate table.

Works great and fine for things like user name, date, old and new columns values (from the Inserted and Deleted trigger tables) – but I’d like more 🙂

In SQL Profiler, you can see the name of the app that’s connected to SQL Server in the profiles – the part that can be defined in the connection string as Application Name:

Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=AdventureWorks;
Integrated Security=True;Application Name="My Application"

Is there any way in a T-SQL FOR UPDATE trigger to get at this information?

Answer 1

SELECT APP_NAME()