Along with 17+ years of hands-on experience, he holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of database certifications. I'm running sql server 12.0 on Azure. Let's look at how to change a password and force the password to be changed after the first login using the ALTER LOGIN statement in SQL Server (Transact-SQL).

Fig 4: Enable Database User In SQL Server on Database Level.

During setup which I ran under DOMAIN\Admin I accepted the default configuration of adding the current user as a SQL admin. Use ALTER USER instead. Keep Those Permissions. He has authored 12 SQL Server database books, 33 Pluralsight courses and has written over 5100 articles on the database technology on his blog at a https://blog.sqlauthority.com.

ALTER USER has nice, clean syntax, but it didn’t support the WITH LOGIN clause until SQL Server 2008. Upon reconsideration after completion, however, I'd like to use the DOMAIN\DbAdmins group instead of a single user on the domain. The "Persons" table will now look like this:

If this is the case, you can make minor changes to this initial query, for example change <> N'dbo' to NOT IN (N'dbo', N'other_schema').. Next, we need to build the ALTER USER command. Keep in mind that you may have some users in some databases where the default schema is not dbo, and this is intentional. Syntax I created a user "DemoApp" with it's schema "DemoApp" Solution 1: Set the user as the owner of the schema works and restricts access to select etc. Example - Change Password and Force Change. sp_change_users_login feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Fig 5: Enable/Disable SQL Server Database User . However, unless you have the ALTER USER system privilege, you must always specify the REPLACE clause if a password complexity verification function has been enabled, either by running the UTLPWDMG.SQL script or by specifying such a function in the PASSWORD_VERIFY_FUNCTION parameter of a profile that has been assigned to the user. The “user is currently connected to it” might be SQL Server Management Studio window itself. Starting in SQL Server 2005, SQL Server can use the password policies that the operating system uses. For a complete reference of all the data types available in MS Access, MySQL, and SQL Server, go to our complete Data Types reference. grant alter, execute, view definition to [testuser] However, this also gives ALTER on all tables, which may or may not be desireable. I just finished a successful install of SQL Server 2014 Express, onto a domain-joined VM instance of Win8.1. We can do that inline, like this: MSDN says, maps an existing database user to a SQL Server login. This includes account lockout.