I would like to remove the BUILTIN/Administrators group from SQL Server in
order to prevent NT Administrators from having SQL sysadmin authority.
Does anyone see any harm in doing this eg. could it affect future SQL Server
upgrades if this group no longer exists?
Any help would be appreciated.
Regards,
Ian Brennan
BT (UK)
We have a development server and someone went ahead and deleted the BuiltinAdministrators account in SSRS 2008 R2. I would like to know if, as a local admin of the server, I can recover content manager access to the SSRS instance.
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How can I accomplish this? I tried going into Report Manager -> Site Settings -> Configure Site Wide Security and re-assigning BUILTINAdministrators to the System User role instead of the System Administrator role. (A different set of report manager admins was given the system administrator role).
However, it appears that members of the BUILTINAdministrators group still have full control in Report Manager.
Hello all,
On Analysis Services 2005 the members of the Administrators local group are also members of the fixed server role, therefore they have full control over Analysis Services databases.
I think this can be a problem becouse many system administrators don't need full control over AS. Does someone kwon how can I remove those high privileges to the local administrator?
Thank you.
Hernan.
I'm using Mix-Moded Authentication. Can I remove the Builtin/Administrator loggin ID without cause any harm to my current Login ID user(Windows NT user)? Are will removing Builtin/Administrator what harm will this cause to my server?
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I have a number of automated unit tests I wish to run on two different computers. The process involves recreating a database if it does not exist and then granting access and privileges to the BUILTINUsers group.
The problem is that one computer is installed with a Swedish Windows XP Professional (the users group is called BUILTINAnvändare) and the other is an English WinXP MCE (the group is called BUILTINUsers) so I cannot easily script this.
An alternative is to be able to retrieve the respective name through a .NET class or the Windows API.
Is any of this possible?
Thanks,
Johan
Hi ,
I am trying to add users,rules,roles and administrators to my website, of course on my local server everything was ok, but now I can't login with my users on the server.
Basicly I created users and rules on my comp, and copied the App_data DB file to the rootapp_data that is on the server(Using godaddy).
I understand that if the data is on the server it is no longer uses the DB in the rootapp_data , but only the asp tables which are on MSSQL database.
I need help in copying the data from the data base in the App_data folder to the hosting database. I couldn't find the answers in the godaddy website help nor how to use their stored procedures to insert all the above.
(if I need to use the stored procedures please explain how)
Thanks very much for your help
I'm trying to conncet to Report Server with Non-Administrator user through WMI in compliance with this document: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms365170.aspx
When I try to get Instances from MSReportServer_Instance class I get an exception:
In my C# project i have an exception:
System.Runtime.InteropServices.COMException (0x8000000A) at System.Runtime.InteropServices.Marshal.ThrowExceptionForHRInternal(Int32 errorCode, IntPtr errorInfo) at System.Management.ManagementObjectCollection.ManagementObjectEnumerator.MoveNext()
But, when I give the account Domain Administrators rights all works ok.
What additional rights must I give to the account?
I have this posted in the VFP section of the forums but the more I find out about the issue the more I think there is an SQL Server security issues.
What I am doing is trying to connect to a LinkedServer of my SQL Express 2005 database running on windows vista. I have the linked server set up to connect to a local FoxPro table using the VFPOLEDB provider. If I log in as the 'sa' account I am able to do my query. But if I log into the server using a trusted connection it doesn't work. I get the error [The OLE DB provider "VFPOLEDB" for linked server "sys" reported an error. The provider did not give any information about the error.]
So I went in and set the BUILTINUser login as the sysAdmin. I also made sure that all of the security settings in SQL server were set up the same between the trusted user and the 'sa' user.
My question is, What am I missing? Is there something that I need to set on windows or is there a setting in SQL server?
Roles Table:
RoleID, RoleName
<RoleID1>, Allow_ClientFolder
<RoleID2>, Allow_ClientReportA
<RoleID3>, Allow_ClientReportB
<RoleID4>, Allow_CompanyFolder
<RoleID5>, Allow_CompanyReportA
<RoleID6>, Allow_CompanyReportB
UsersInRoles Table:
UserID, RoleID
<UserID1>, <RoleID1>
<UserID1>, <RoleID2>
<UserID2>, <RoleID4>
<UserID2>, <RoleID5>
<UserID2>, <RoleID6>
<UserID2>, <RoleID1>
<UserID2>, <RoleID3>
e.g.
when the <UserID1> clicks on the "home" link show only "Client" folder and when <UserID1> clicks on the "Client" folder only "ClientReportA" will show.
Here is the accessable map for each user:
<UserID1>
Client
ClientReportA
<UserID2>
Client
ClientReportB
Company
CompanyReportA
CompanyReportB
Question:
What is the best way to implement CheckAccess? At first I thought I can access the item names and I can test authorization through that, but AceCollection contains operation permission of the accessing object.
Hi! I am trying to remove an "*" I used to transfer a file from Excel to SQL. I put the "*" in the NULL values so that I would not get an error. Now that I have the file in SQL, I need to remove the :*" from some columns in my table. How can I select all of those in a column and delete them without deleting each individual one. Any ideas?
Thanks for your help.
Scott
Started with maintenance cleanup task set up bak and directory did not delete the files.
Then found this http://blog.solidsoft.com/blogs/richards_infrastructure_blog/archive/2007/07/12/369.aspx
Copy script
use master
declare @dt datetime
select @dt=getdate()-2
EXECUTE master.dbo.xp_delete_file 0,N'D:BackupAcctDB',N'BAK',@dt
Get message
Msg 22049, Level 16, State 1, Line 0
xp_delete_file() returned error 2, 'The system cannot find the file specified.'
Anyone else get problem with removing BAK files
I have a search box to look up using a number as an identifier. Currently my query is where x = @enteredNumber, but some place where a user might get the number it is padded with zeros. We can have them just see the number and retype it.
EG: 000000123 would be entered as 123.
But, I would like to let them copy and paste, but then strip the zeros (left padding only).
EG:
@num = stripPadding(@enteredNumber)
IE:
@num = stripPadding(000000123)
@num = 123
Hi,
I'm using SQL Server 7.0 SP3. I added a column to a table like so:
ALTER TABLE T704_RELATIONSHIP_INDEX_CLIENT_REPORT_STORE
ADD Universe_Member_Set_cd INT NOT NULL DEFAULT 1
What is the syntax for dropping the 'DEFAULT' from this column once it has been created? I've looked in BOL but can't seem to get the syntax correct.
Thanks in advance,
Darrin
I need to remove the duplicates from a table. If a record exits 4 times in a
table I need to delete 3 records and retain only one occurance of that.
I need a query to do this.
Can anybody help.
-Rajesh
Hi all,
I am using SQL 2k SP2 on Win 2K Advance server Cluster. My problem is how to remove builtinAdministrators login. Earlier when I tried it was doing failovers from one node to another and not stopping. I was not able to do anything. Any help is appriciated
thanks,
Minesh.
I wonder if one can give a hint on remove a DB suspect,
Mind you I have used SP_dbremove still did not remove the DB
This is on SQL 7.0 box
Any idea welcomed
Saad
Hello,
A few days ago one our database's default filegroup filled up. To solve the problem one of my colleagues created a new filegroup. This didn't solve the problem as no objects were placed on this filegroup and the initial one is still full. The idea was to expand the original filegroup over a new physical disk, not to create a new filegroup on that disk. Unfortunately, this is what happened.
To solve this I want to delete the new filegroup, but when I issue the command 'alter database PvgOmcsOds remove filegroup ternary' I get the message 'Server: Msg 5042, Level 16, State 7, Line 1 The filegroup 'ternary' cannot be removed because it is not empty.' Yet there're no objects placed on this filegroup.
How can I get rid of this filegroup?
Stef
I am trying to remove a transaction log that has grown too large for its databse and server. I have truncated the log and have run dbcc shrinkfile with the EmptyFile Option, but when I try to use alter database remove file and am I told that the object is not empty and cannot be removed. The server is in dbo use only.
What am I missing?
Hi all,
I am trying to remove one of the filegroups in the development database to shrink its size down. I started with emptying and removing its files and ran:
dbcc shrinkfile
(pubs_data_1,emptyfile)
go
and it ran fine, with 'DBCC execution completed' message
but when I tried :
alter database pubs
remove file pubs_data_1
go
I got 'pubs_data_1 cannot be removed because it is not empty'.
I even tried to go to each of the tables and delete from them first which didn't work, then drop all tables in that filegroup (I knew which tables are located on that filegroup), that didn't work either.
Any ideas? Is there a way to check what else sits on that filegroup?
Thanks
Hi,
We had transactional replication set up by a consultant with remote distributer, push subscription to the publisher (main production database). However, the subscriber machine had fatal crash and is unrecoverable. Now, replication jobs have been failing on distributor and we immediately need to disable and remove replication as it has started causing problems with transaction log backups on production database.
How can I completely remove this whole replication from publisher and distributor?
Please help.
Thanks,
Shaili
Dear Concerned DBAs,
I am wanting to pick someones brain and find out if there is anything I can do to successfully remove and reinstall SQL Server Version 6.5? I have already removed the software from the SQL Setup icon in ProgramsMSSQL Server 6.5 and went and removed the setup.exe and mssql files associated with the software from the server. Now when I attempt to reinstall the software back onto the server after a hard reboot, I do not get the option once the SQL Server Version 6.5 disk is placed into the CD-Rom to install SQL Server. The only options I get are upgrade, server configurations, etc.
Can anyone or everyone give me a hand as to where to take this dilemma other than rebuilding the server from the ground up?
Anticipatorily Yours,
Daimon Russell
Hello all,
I have a table named users. It consists of user names, user ids, etc... The problem is that whoever designed the ASP code before me allowed people to enter info in any format they want. This poses a problem because now the name can have 1, 2, or sometimes 3 spaces in between the last and first names. And sometimes the middle initial is used with a period following it. This creates problems when I am trying to execute a Select statement since it won't match if there are an unknown number of spaces in the string and throws an error when a period is used.
Is there a SQL query I can execute to change all the user_names into a format such as the following:
LastName, FirstName MiddleInitial
Like I said, it is already almost the same, just has too many spaces and some have periods after the middle initial
I have a members table and have added an extra few thoushand members to it. Now I need to remove the duplicates.
It doesnt matter which duplicate i remove as long as there are unique email addresses.
so here is the format of the table:
id
email
firstname
lastname
datebirth
if i do a:
SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT Email) AS Expr1
FROM Customer
it returns 21345
and
SELECT Count(Email)
FROM Customer
returns 28987
I can get the unique email addresses into another table by going:
SELECT DISTINCT emailaddress INTO DistinctCustomer
FROM Customer
but this will only return unique email addresses. How do i select distinct email address and all other fields into a new table? or just remove duplicates where email address appears more then once?
Thanks in advance
Tom the SQL beginner
i want to build a paratiotin which the key of the paratition will be a datre in this structure :
20080101235959
20080102235959
20080103235959
20080104235959
20080105235959
and so on.....
and i want that when there is a paration that it's "date" is more then 30 days to delete it (and that its data will be deleted too)
how do i do that?
thnaks in advance
peleg
Israel -the best place to live in aftr heaven 9but no one wan't to go there so fast -:)
Hi How do i remove the primary key for this table
create table table2
(col1 int,
col2 int,
primary key(col2))
Thanks
Vic
Afternoon all
What is the quickest way to remove the last two char from a colunm and leaving the rest of the colunm intact.
cheers
I have a table that I need to delete some data from and put the deleteddata into a different table.How do I script the following.If Field1 in Table1 is null, remove that row from Table1 and put it ina new table called Table2Regards,Ciarán
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SQL
Upgrading to VS05 Pro SP1/SqlExpress (from VS03 Pro/SQL MSDE)
Question 1) €“ is there a way to tell which version of the SQL Express was installed? I think it is €œSQL Server 2005 Express Edition With Advance Services€?, but don€™t know how to confirm that.
Question 2) - SQL Server Management Studio Express, Registered Servers, it shows :
Database Engine
sqlexpress (note the lower case)
If I right click and choose €œPreviously Registered Servers€?, it shows a message that I will be displaying SQL Server 2000 (i.e. MSDE) server names, and it shows
SQL Server Group
SQLEXPRESS (note the upper case)
CSOLUTION
I wish to completely remove CSOLUTION (in MSDE you would uninstall it from the Control Panel), but right clicking and choosing the delete option does nothing (it does not delete it). Deleting SQL Server Group also has no affect either. How do I remove CSOLUTION ?
Question 3) - In the VS05 program, the SQL connection string includes €œData Source=.SQLEXPRESS€¦.€? (NOTE UPPER CASE) Why do I have a lower case and an upper case listed above? Starting/stopping one sqlexpress/ SQLEXPRESS does the same to the other. Don€™t I wan€™t to complete delete anything under SQL Server Group since it represents SQL Server 2000 (i.e. MSDE) server names? SQL Server 2000 and CSOLUTION have been uninstalled from this machine.
Thanks!
bob
We need to remove the BUILTINAdministrators from reporting services. I.T. personnel do not want to be able to see restricted reports. We have two department users that have been added as Content Managers and we are running reporting services under a created domain user account that we created and not a system service. I have removed BUILTINAdministrators from the Home folder and when I check, it comes right back. Do I need to deny access to BUILTINAdministrator on SQL Server 2005 itself? I would apprecate any suggestions.