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Database User Superfluousness In SQL Server
In this article, Thomas Knight analyzes and critiques the design of, and experience with, the "dual-level" user security in SQL Server. He then demonstrates a better theoretical alternative.
2014-02-04
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Fix users for SQL 7 thru 2008
This script will either reoprt or 'fix' lost or orphaned users after restore for all versions of SQL.
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Database Users And Associated Database Roles
This script basically retreives all database users thier database roles for a database.
2010-02-10 (first published: 2010-01-20)
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Upgrading Admin Queries
I have a query from a former DBA that we run on SQL Server 2025 to check on database metadata. This query references sys.sysaltfiles. I want to refactor this code to be more modern. Which DMV should I reference instead?
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