Resolving orphaned users

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With the announced deprecation of sp_change_users_login, how are we to use ALTER LOGIN to fix orphaned users, in the same way that I used to use

sp_change_users_login 'update_one','mary','mary'

Edit: Matt Whitfield pointed out I should have been talking about ALTER USER. My bad!

Answer 1

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You want to use ALTER USER, rather than ALTER LOGIN.

The equivalent would be

ALTER USER mary
WITH LOGIN = mary

answered Oct 12 '09 at 01:59 PM

Matt Whitfield ♦♦
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Matt: you're right I meant to write ALTER USER in the question, but had 'login' in my mind. Derren Brown eat your heart out.

Oct 12 '09 at 04:15 PM Kev Riley ♦♦

Definately helped me figure out what I needed to change in a dynamic routine. Thanks.

Mar 16 '10 at 12:44 PM Lynn Pettis

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Answer 2

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From BOL, in SQL Server 2008 you can use the WITH LOGIN option of ALTER USER in order to fix an orphaned user. This functionality is also available in 2005.

answered Oct 12 '09 at 02:02 PM

Tim Benninghoff
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I'm not sure WITH LOGIN is new to 2008 - http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176060(SQL.90).aspx ...

Oct 12 '09 at 02:09 PM Matt Whitfield ♦♦

You're correct. I'm still on RTM BOL after rebuilding my workstation. Thanks.

Oct 12 '09 at 02:58 PM Tim Benninghoff

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