SESSIONPROPERTY

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Transact-SQL Reference

SESSIONPROPERTY

Returns the SET options settings of a session.

Syntax

SESSIONPROPERTY ( option )

Arguments

option

Is the current option setting for this session. option may be any of the following values.

Option Description
ANSI_NULLS Specifies whether the SQL-92 compliant behavior of equals (=) and not equal to (<>) against null values is applied.

1 = ON
0 = OFF
ANSI_PADDING Controls the way the column stores values shorter than the defined size of the column, and the way the column stores values that have trailing blanks in character and binary data.

1 = ON
0 = OFF
ANSI_WARNINGS Specifies whether the SQL-92 standard behavior of raising error messages or warnings for certain conditions, including divide-by-zero and arithmetic overflow, is applied.

1 = ON
0 = OFF
ARITHABORT Determines whether a query is terminated when an overflow or a divide-by-zero error occurs during query execution.

1 = ON
0 = OFF
CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_
NULL		 Controls whether concatenation results are treated as null or empty string values.

1 = ON
0 = OFF
NUMERIC_ROUNDABORT Specifies whether error messages and warnings are generated when rounding in an expression causes a loss of precision.

1 = ON
0 = OFF
QUOTED_IDENTIFIER Specifies whether SQL-92 rules regarding the use of quotation marks to delimit identifiers and literal strings are to be followed.

1 = ON
0 = OFF
<Any other string> NULL = Invalid input

Return Types

sql_variant

Remarks

SET options are figured by combining server-level, database-level, and user-specified options.

Examples

This example returns the setting for CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL option.

SELECT   SESSIONPROPERTY ('CONCAT_NULL_YIELDS_NULL')

See Also

sql_variant

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