how to deny logins

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how to deny logins

RightOnTarget

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May 14, 2013 at 10:43 am

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Hi all,
I've copied a database to a new server. How do I make database on original server inaccessible to users while I am checking that everything is OK with the copy?
And how to reverse it?
Thanks,

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Sean Lange SSC Guru Points: 286573 More actions · Answer 1

rightontarget (5/14/2013)
Hi all,
I've copied a database to a new server. How do I make database on original server inaccessible to users while I am checking that everything is OK with the copy?
And how to reverse it?
Thanks,

A couple different ways depending on what you need to do. If you want to examine stuff in the database you can set the database to single user. That way nobody else can login.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms345598.aspx

If you want nobody to be able to access it you could take it offline, of course any application trying to connect will fail because it will appear that the db doesn't exist.

http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2010/04/24/sql-server-t-sql-script-to-take-database-offline-take-database-online/[/url]

If you just want to make it readonly, well set it to readonly. http://blog.sqlauthority.com/2011/04/16/sql-server-making-database-to-read-only-changing-database-to-readwrite/[/url]

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Lowell SSC Guru Points: 323504 More actions · Answer 2

A couple of other ideas ,depending on who it is you want to keep out of the database restore the database with a name noone would connect to.

and another way is to create a role which deny the users access, and add everyone to the role; it only goes about halfway to what Sean posted, because they could connect to the database, but not select anything...but that connection could slow you down from restoring. it also might not work on someone who happens to be a sysadmin.

take a look at this thread with a very similar question:

http://www.sqlservercentral.com/Forums/Topic1451695-146-1.aspx#bm1451705

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RightOnTarget Hall of Fame Points: 3041 More actions · Answer 3

Sorry for delay and thanks for your help.

I ended up setting it to read_only.