Alternatives to CONTEXT_INFO on SQL Azure

Question

Hi,
We use CONTEXT_INFO in an application we currently are looking to move to SQL Azure however CONTEXT_INFO is already used to troubleshooting purposes by SQL Azure. Are there any built in alternatives in SQL Azure?
Thanks,

Answer 1

Hmm, still no answer since August of 2010?  I hope MS has something for us that use this.  I'll give an example I use CONTEXT_INFO in an applicaiton.
I use CONTEXT_INFO to prevent users from modifying a table using SQL Studio.  I do this by setting a CONTEXT_INFO in my c#/vb code like so after a begin transaction, along with other TSQL commands, I have this little guy.
    DECLARE @x varbinary(4); SET @x = cast(-1 as varbinary(4)); SET CONTEXT_INFO @x
update dbo.CusCharges set PaymentAmount=5 where CusChargeAmount=10 and CustomerId=30
So then in a particular table, in the trigger (after update, insert) I have this piece of code (shown below)This will allow my application to update the table, but casual TSQL users which don't know about this won't be able to perform an update to this table directly.This works great, except in Azure-land where sysprocesses is not available. So how can I pass down a special variable to a trigger in the context of a transaction?If course, someone could still use TSQL studio, but they would really need to examine the trigger and know what they are doing. This just prevents thebeginning DBA from wiping out Customer Charges for the past decade in a table (it's happened, which is why I put it in).  declare @SessionNid int
    select @SessionNid = cast(substring(CONTEXT_INFO,1,4) as int) FROM master.dbo.sysprocesses WHERE spid = @@SPID
    if @SessionNid = 0 begin
        raiserror('You cannot directly modify dbo.CusCharges.', 16, 1)
        rollback transaction
        return
    end