Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Orphaned users after a restore


When you restore a database, you can be left in a state where some users are orphaned from the server (even if there is a login with the same name)

Within SQL Server, there is a quick fix.

Step 1 - Run this in the newly restored database and it will show all the orphaned users

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'Report'


Step 2 - Run this and will assign the user to a login name 


EXEC sp_change_users_login 'UPDATE_ONE','',''

so for example

EXEC sp_change_users_login 'UPDATE_ONE','testuser','testuser'


And that's it. 

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