Code Analysis

DEP006

Page last updated 05 February 2021

SETUSER statement is deprecated

SETUSER statement is there only for backward-compatibility.

Since SQL Server 2008, it has been possible to use EXECUTE AS, which is much clearer.

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 SQL Monitor

SQL Prompt

 SQL Code Guard


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