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Function Usage Identifiers are a way to be authorized to a particular function, without having the authority changed on my user profile. I have found it is a lot easier to persuade the sys admins to grant me authority to the Function Usage Identifier for something, than it is to have my user profile changed.
In this post I am going to show ways you can find the Function Usage Identifiers, see which ones someone is authorized to, and finally have a way to check in a program whether or not you are authorized to one of the functions. Fortunately all of this can be achieved simply using SQL. What I will be using are: