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When you restore a database, you are quite often just restoring users to the database and not restoring server logins. The best practice is not to … I am using SQL Server 2008 R2. Why am I telling you this, well context can be useful sometimes . Whenever we are taking backup of the database, all the users, roles & associated schemas are getting backed up while login. The user (service account) created to access the DB is “Developer”. When you try to map the server calvin to the database calvin, you might get the error:

Information about the mapping of a SQL Server login to a database user is stored within the database. Linking ALL Users to Login after restoring a SQL Server 2005 database. You can check out this at the Login Properties window by right-clicking the newly-created login and select Properties. Often when you restore a backup from SQL server you run into funky problems with users. Using ALTER USER. This could cause the unexpected issues such as mismatched SIDs in SQL Server.

Till now I haven’t set up User Mapping for the new login jack, so there is no database users mapped to this login currently. Remapping Orphaned Users.

In these scenarios, the SDE user within the geodatabase is not in synch with the login for that instance of SQL Server. When I restore a backup of database I always have to redo the login/user mappings. I understand this because the logins are per database server. There are two exceptions, the guest account and Microsoft Windows group memberships. The issue: I just restored a database backup file from somewhere. In order to list these logins with its assigned roles, these system tables need to be queried. You backed up your Microsoft SQL Database and restored it on another system, but the user id's you've used before can not access the database. This means that there is no password associated with a database user.

ALTER USER can even be used with Windows-based logins, as long as the database user was originally mapped to a Windows-based login. Instructions provided describe how to re-synch SQL Server logins with the database users after restoring a database from backup. There are some situations where the SID may have a mismatch, e.g. However our application makes use of a lot of database users that are defined in the database. ALTER USER can even be used with Windows-based logins, as long as the database user was originally mapped to a Windows-based login. Part 2: Create A New Login. This process is always required when an SDE schema database is restored from a backup (.bak), or attached from a previously detached database (.mdf).

Since sp_change_users_login is deprecated as of SQL Server 2008, you should start using the ALTER USER approach instead. Suppose you have login calvin and you restore a database from another server that already has user called calvin. On server 2008, when I restore current copies of our production database to a different location (an identical developtment database running on SQL 2008 R2) the users for the database are still there, and so are the logins, but the mapping of the login to the database is gone. Below we’ll walk you through the steps of creating a new login and user, mapping a user to a login. This article is a summary of how to quickly configure the SQL Server database so that your previous user id's can access the database properly. For more info about how to do that, see SQL Server Books Online. There are a number of logins and for each database one or more user/login mappings. I have backed the database up from the first server and done a database restore on the 2nd server, so far so good.

In other words, you can’t change from a Windows-based login to a SQL Server login or vice-versa. I can then use SQL Server Management Studio to connect to the SQL Server instance with this login. When transferring a database to a new server using backup and restore or when detaching and re-attaching the database, the links for the database users are broken. Beware of dropping and recreating a domain user account with the same account name. Configure Network Drive Visible for SQL Server for Backup and Restore Using SSMS. The database users are mapped to the logins internally using the SID, not the login name/user name. SQL Server logins access individual databases using a database user that is mapped to the appropriate SQL Server login.

I have two Microsoft SQL Server instances set up for mirroring each with a number of databases. This information lives in the "syslogins" table in the master database. Along with 17+ years of hands-on experience, he holds a Masters of Science degree and a number of database certifications. Restore SQL Database–Restoring security user settings. SQL Server logins and permissions are stored in the security catalog system tables in the master database. To create a SQL Server login, please follow these steps: Open SQL Server Management Studio and connect to your SQL Server instance. A significant benefit of using a Windows user in SQL Server is the automatic mapping of SID to allow access to resources, since the SID is always the same on the scope of domain or local.