ISO TSQL to Delete User IF EXISTS from DB only (not SQL Login)

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ISO TSQL to Delete User IF EXISTS from DB only (not SQL Login)

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November 8, 2007 at 6:27 am

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In Search Of... T-SQL to DELETE a User from a database ONLY IF the User Exists. I do NOT want to DELETE the LOGIN.
For example:
User myDomain\BOB resides in Security Logins
User myDomain\BOB resides in a User of Database CUSTOMER
Looking for the IF EXISTS syntax, then DROP myDomain\BOB out of the DB User.
BT

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colin.Leversuch-Roberts SSC Guru Points: 52643 More actions · Answer 1

query sys.sysusers for the user name

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Express12 SSCoach Points: 18514 More actions · Answer 2

OK - but I cannot delete from system catalogs. This T-SQL:

USE myDatabase

GO

IF EXISTS (SELECT Name FROM sys.sysusers WHERE Name = 'myDomain\BOB')

DELETE FROM sys.sysusers WHERE Name = 'myDomain\BOB'

GO

Renders this Error Msg:

Msg 259, Level 16, State 1, Line 3

Ad hoc updates to system catalogs are not allowed.

Anyone have T-SQL to accomplish this via T-SQL? (I need to imbed this in a script !!)

BT

Express12 SSCoach Points: 18514 More actions · Answer 3

Got it:

USE myDatabase

GO

IF EXISTS (SELECT Name FROM sys.sysusers WHERE Name = 'myDomain\BOB ')

DROP User [myDomain\BOB ]

GO

CREATE USER [myDomain\BOB ] FOR LOGIN [myDomain\BOB ]

GRANT EXECUTE ON sp_MyProc TO [myDomain\BOB ]

BT

Steve Jones - SSC Editor SSC Guru Points: 734459 More actions · Answer 4

That's the way to do it. For regular operations (add, edit, delete) or objects, you don't want to mess with the system tables as a rule. There are exceptions, but for the most part there are commands to work with the objects.

AnthonyNilsson Newbie Points: 1 More actions · Answer 5

Use [DB_Name]

IF OBJECT_ID('Tempdb..#Tmp') IS NOT NULL DROP TABLE #Tmp

select name into #Tmp from sys.database_principals where type <> 'R' and name not in ('dbo','public','guest','sys','INFORMATION_SCHEMA')

except

select name from sys.server_principals

SELECT 'IF EXISTS (SELECT [name] from sys.database_principals where [name] = '''+NAME+''') BEGIN DROP USER ['+NAME+'] END;'

from #Tmp