>Is there a way to programmaticly determine the network address of the box hosting the sql server my app is connected to? ( assuming the connection string is obfuscated within the app ) ?
Charles,
Just guessing here, but assuming you can actually connect to the server, you could use SELECT SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') AS MachineName to get the computer name of the computer where sql server is running and in a second step converting the computer name to an ip address, for example using WMI
[Update]
This guy created a store procedure to get the IP Address, I did not test it
http://www.sqlmag.com/article/tsql3/dynamically-obtain-a-sql-server-s-ip-address-in-t-sql-code.aspx
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