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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, Databricks, H2, MariaDB, MemSQL, MySQL, Snowflake
current_user()
Aurora Postgres, CockroachDB, DB2, Derby, Firebird, HSQLDB, Hana, Postgres, SQLDataWarehouse, SQLServer, Sybase, Teradata, YugabyteDB
current_user
ClickHouse
currentUser()
SQLite
''
Access, BigQuery, DuckDB, Exasol, Redshift, Trino, Vertica
/* UNSUPPORTED */
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