programming with passion » SQL Server http://www.jasonrowland.com Learning Mac, Ruby, iPhone, BlackBerry, Android, WinMobile Fri, 30 Jul 2010 21:01:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Login failed after restoring database on SQL Server 2008 http://www.jasonrowland.com/2009/08/login-failed-after-restoring-database-on-sql-server-2008/ http://www.jasonrowland.com/2009/08/login-failed-after-restoring-database-on-sql-server-2008/#comments Tue, 25 Aug 2009 04:13:13 +0000 admin http://www.jasonrowland.com/?p=107 After restoring a production database backup on SQL Server 2008, to my development machine, I got a “Login failed for user xyz”. The database user was not associated with a user and was marked as “Without login”. This happens when you do not have a login for the database user.  You can create that user but the SIDs do not match.  SQL Server provides a stored procedure to check for this scenario.

sp_change_users_login ‘report’

To correct it, use the same stored procedure with a different command.

sp_change_users_login ‘update_one’, ‘{username}’, ‘{login}’

This will make sure that your username and login have the same SID.

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