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CURRENT_USER
Applies to ✅ Open Source Edition ✅ Express Edition ✅ Professional Edition ✅ Enterprise Edition
The CURRENT_USER() function produces the dialect dependent expression to produce the currently connected user for the JDBC connection.
SELECT current_user;
create.select(currentUser()).fetch();
The result being, for example
+--------------+ | current_user | +--------------+ | sa | +--------------+
Dialect support
This example using jOOQ:
currentUser()
Translates to the following dialect specific expressions:
-- ASE, INFORMIX, ORACLE user -- AURORA_MYSQL, H2, MARIADB, MEMSQL, MYSQL, SNOWFLAKE current_user() -- AURORA_POSTGRES, COCKROACHDB, DB2, DERBY, FIREBIRD, HANA, HSQLDB, POSTGRES, SQLDATAWAREHOUSE, SQLSERVER, SYBASE, -- TERADATA, YUGABYTEDB current_user -- SQLITE '' -- ACCESS, BIGQUERY, DUCKDB, EXASOL, REDSHIFT, TRINO, VERTICA /* UNSUPPORTED */
(These are currently generated with jOOQ 3.19, see #10141), or translate your own on our website
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