SqlConnection - is remote or local connection?

Question

How can I determine is it local connection (localhost or 127.0.0.1) or is it remote connection (other machine in local area) if I have SqlConnection object?

Answer 1

Easiest way that I am aware of is to check the connectionstring directly to see if it contains either the words localhost, 127.0.0.1, (localhost), "." or the local machine name. Check for starting with since their could be a local named instance of Sql running.

You can use the System.Environment library to retrieve the current machine name. You can also look at using the ConnectionBuilder library in .Net to retrieve the data without using complete string parsing. Details on this can be found here