CONNECTIONPROPERTY()

For a request that comes in to the server, this function returns information about the connection properties of the unique connection which supports that request.

Signature

CONNECTIONPROPERTY ( property )

Parameters

property — The property of the connection. *property* can have one of these values:

Examples

SELECT   
ConnectionProperty('net_transport') AS 'Net transport',   
ConnectionProperty('protocol_type') AS 'Protocol type';

TCP|TSQL

Run against SQL Server 16.0.4265.3 on 2026-09-13. This is the output we got, not the documentation’s.

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