Relation between sysusers and syslogins

• vamsi.341

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  February 14, 2011 at 11:20 pm

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  Hi

  what is relation between sysusers and syslogins?

  how they are connected to eachother.

• Adiga

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  February 15, 2011 at 6:43 am

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  You may find this article useful.

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• Ysaias Portes-QUI Group

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  April 14, 2011 at 3:01 pm

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  sysusers Contains one row for each Microsoft Windows user, Windows group, Microsoft SQL Server user, or SQL Server role in the database.

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179871.aspx

  while syslogins contains the login account.

  Having a login does not mean you have access to a database or having a user does not mean that you can connect to SQL or have access to the database.

  A user must be linked to a login to complete the database access.

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• Steve Jones - SSC Editor

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  April 14, 2011 at 3:12 pm

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  These are old views, for compatibility purposes. Don't use them.

  sysusers has been superseded by sys.database_principals (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187328.aspx)

  syslogins has been superseded by sys.server_principals (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188786.aspx) and sys.sql_logins (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms174355.aspx)

  Logins exist at a server instance level, users are in a database. They are mapped from a user to a login.