RE: Fix Orphan Users for All databases

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March 20, 2017 at 8:20 pm

#1934107

i think that resetting the database user(s) to match the login is the backwards way to do it; you have to re-do it with every restore.

i prefer to script out the user from , say production via sp_help_revlogin or something similar, so you have the sid, and drop and recreate the sql login on dev, then change the password on dev.

then the sids ALWAYS match, forever, and tno subsequent restores form production suffer from orphans any more.

Lowell

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