SQL 2012 :: How To Reconcile Logins Between Two Server Instances
Oct 16, 2015
I am in the process of writing a generic PowerShell script (that executes T-SQL statements) to copy all or some databases from one SQL Server 2012 SP2 instance to a second instance that runs SQL Server 2012 SP2 or higher. The script is designed to be used on demand, and part of its execution will involve reconciling the logins between the source and destination instances.
I am looking for a reliable way to reconcile the logins between the instances in a somewhat repetitive (i.e., "on demand") fashion. There is no SSIS in the environment; so the SSIS transfer logins task to not available to me.
I am trying to reconcile two different databases. Each database holds customer information and some of this information is represented as drop down tables. Here is how it is linked
Attribute name Attribute Values Customer Color 8, 0 8, 1, 1234, 6 892, 14, 1234, 6, John, Doe red 8, 1 8, 2, 1234, 6 blue 8,2
Database 2 Sample
Attribute name Attribute Values Customer Color 5, 0 5, 3, 1234, 6 892, 14, 7434, 5, John, Doe red 5, 3 5, 4, 1234, 6 blue 5,4
Within a database, the ATTID and Attcode link the attribute and attribute value tables and they link to the Customer table with CustID and Cust Code. One Customer may have multiple entries within the Attribute value table
The Customer tables in each database are linked by the DBID and DBCode values. The other ID's are not necessarily the same across databases.
The object is to compile a list of Customers where these attribute values vary between databases. There are approximately 56,000 Customers in the customer table and 710,000 entries in the attribute values table.
My attempts to do this have produced cross joins with millions of values returned
I was told that if I wanted to setup mirroring between multiple instance on the same server that each endpoint had to be different number. Is that true? Or can I use the default 5022 for each instance?
Is there any Best Practice, 3rd Party Tool for Automating SQL Server Patching for around 10000+ SQL instances.
It is very difficult to do the same manually because each server will consume atleast 1-2 hours and if this is completely done manually then n number of people might be required for accomplishing this task which doesn't looks feasible at all.
I am currently having publisher(database A), subscriber (database B) and distributor on the same instance for a test environment that is using a uni directional transactional replication. Now I need to setup another unidirectional transactional replication in the same test instance but for a different database. Publisher database is D and subcsirber database is E.
In one of my environments, I need to grant the ability to view all the logins and agent jobs to an account, but I don't want to give him "sysadmin" or "securityadmin".
One of my varchar columns in a table has multiple key words enclosed in a pattern of special characters.
Eg: William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world's pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England's national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain. His plays have been translated into every major living language and are performed more often than those of any other [##playwright##].
I need to write to query to find all distinct key words that are enclosed within [## and ##]. My query should yield the following results from the string in the example above
[##actor##] [##dramatist##] [##playwright##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set [##poems##] [##poet##] -- 2 occurrances, but I need it only once in my result set [##sonnets##] [##verses##] [##writer##]
I need to run this on a large table, so I am looking for the best possible way to minimize any performance issues.
Just give you sample code, I have provided below 2 separate snippets, one with table variable and another with temp table.
DECLARE @MyTable TABLE (MyString VARCHAR (8000)) INSERT @MyTable VALUES ('William Shakespeare was an English [##poet##], [##playwright##], and [##actor##], widely regarded as the greatest [##writer##] in the English language and the world''s pre-eminent [##dramatist##]. He is often called England''s national [##poet##] and the "Bard of Avon". His extant works, including some collaborations, consist of about 38 plays, 154 [##sonnets##], two long narrative [##poems##], and a few other [##verses##], of which the authorship of some is uncertain.
When I am in Visual Studio 2005, and I try to add an SQL database, I get the following error "generating user instances in sql server is disabled. use sp_configure user instances enabled to generate user instances." I am currently using SQL server 2005 Express. What do I need to do, to create an SQL database? Thanks in advance.
I had a server with SQL Server 7.0 I installed a named instance of SQL Server 2000 and then i passed all my DB of the 7.0 instance to the 2000 instance. Then i removed the 7.0 instance, that was the default instance. So at the moment there is only the 2000 version, but it isn't the default instance Can the 2000 instance become the default instance? (So that clients can connect to it simply through computer name, and not creating an alias)
I would move a Database to another server. I try to use DTS but I have problems with this process because DB have big tables, I think. I try to use DETACH and ATTACH procedures but logins doesn't export. And more, in new server there are already logins from another DBs.
What's the best way to solve this problem? Please, help Thanks
I am a systems analyst and work with an app that runs against 2 SQL Server DBs. Though I have some familiarity with SQL Server and SQL, I am not a DBA.
The app executable is tied to a Windows service. When we install the app, we run a process that builds 2 dbs to include: Tables, indexes, stored procedures, views and user accounts. SQL Server is set up for mixed mode authentication.
Normally, the dbs run off the local db user accounts which are tied to local logins with the same names. We have a client that wants to remove our standard logins so that they can run on only a Windows login. I know I should be able to tie the db users to a Windows login. And I can do the same for the service.
But I am at a loss as to how to get this done. How do you associate db users with a Windows login? When I have tried sp_change_users_login I get an error that the Windows login does not exist. (Though I have added the Windows account to the DB.)
ok, first, I know... I forgot to run a backup of the master database, and I forgot to run a script to caputure logins. Not that that is out of the way... I need to recreate the logins under the Securities tab below the databases. All the company databases have the user names and passwords assigned to them, but they are not able to login, because they are not able to authenticate to the SQL server first.
Is there a script that someone has that will copy the company database security info for the users and recreate them in the SQL security tab?
I know that I can rebuild them manually, but I need to delete them first in the application software, then delete them from the databases, and then recreate them in the application software... and as simple as that sounds... it is a slow moving process.
My issue is that: here have two datamirror servers, and when the first fail, mirror needs to assume with the same name.
I'll try explain: SD01 - Primary, SD02 - mirror. If SD01 fails, SD02 assumes called SD01. By the way, the instances are in same domain, but not in same computer.
I'm having a bear of a time with this. I have a recordset that pulls data from one, single table. I would like to iterate through the set, do some processing based on that data, then delete all of the records in that recordset.
I'm trying to do something like the following:
Set dbConn = CreateObject("ADODB.Connection") Set dbRS = CreateObject("ADODB.Recordset")
"Multiple-Step OLE DB operation generated errors. Check each OLE DB status value, if available. No work was done."
This seems to indicate the connection doesn't think it's capable of reconciling the recordset. Is there a way to do this in one batch or should I stick with executing a single delete statement for every record in my recordset?
Is it possible for a clustered instance of SQL2012 to have 2 network names ?
Reason: I need to segregate admin access to a clustered instance so that the admins and SSMS connect via a different IP address than the application. I know I can block SSMS access via application-level firewalls, but ideally the application would connect to CLUSTER1INSTANCE01 on , say, 10.192.5.5, and the admins would connect to CLUSTER1ADMININSTANCE01 on 172.168.2.2, and they'd be the same instance, just using different names and IPs
I am using robocopy to copy my sql server backups to a fileshare. This is working great except for named instances.I use Ola Hallegren's backups which create a folder called xxxx$xxxx. Robocopy can't seem to handle the $.
I am using sql2012 with partitiondb custom installation over 6 dbs on 4 servers, ~200GB per db. I am looking for the perfect graphic tool (similar to Perfmon+Activity Monitor) where I can monitor a wide-scope SQL environment. I am interested in data / log / table / index growth, buffer cache hit ratio, average wait time, physical/logical reads/writes and such. I am interested in real-time / time-range metrics. I know I can issue immediate queries against dm_os_performance_counters / dm_os_buffer_descriptors / dm_exec_query_stats and get some of the relevant data, but is this the only way?Also, for your opinnion, what are the most crucial metrics to monitor when dealing with multiple dbs?
I refresh QA environments with copies of our production database quite often. Many of the users also have read-only logins to production, but not all. I've noticed that in QA the users in the restored database are matched up with QA server logins that no longer have "DBO" as their default schema. We almost always use DBO, nothing else.
On the most recent restore, I didn't drop the target DB first, just restored with "replace." Does it matter whether I drop or replace in this instance?
The one user reporting issues could not open the database in management studio to view objects/tables etc. I noticed their default schema was their domain login, so fixed that and they now no longer have the issue.
We have a particular database sat on SQL Server 2012 box along with about 20 other databases.
What I require is a method/Script/Audit that will simply track anyone who logs (successfully / unsuccessful) into this one particular database on the server (The single database is the key as the end user does not want information on any of the other databases that sit on the server), it also has to log time the attempt was made and it must track the logins via SQL Server or the application itself that is attached to the database.
So I'm using the 2012 SSMS to connect to a SQL 2008 database, upon which we have code that audits all SQL logins to production and notifies us via email that someone is using logins they shouldn't. Mostly it's to notify us if people other than the DBAs are using these logins from their desktops instead of using their windows accounts.
This morning I opened up SSMS 2012, logged into my production servers in Object Explorer using Windows Auth. An hour later, I had to update an exception table, so I opened a new query with SQL Auth and used a SQL-only login it. Immediately the email pops that someone on my desktop is using a SQL Login. That's okay. That's expected.
What I didn't expect is that after I closed the query window, the email kept popping. The query window isn't even open / connected to production any more, but SQL still thinks I'm logged in using a SQL Login instead of with Windows Authentication (which is what I used on the Object Explorer connection).
Is there a bug with 2012 that causes a new connection type to affect all current connections? I.E., did it change my DB Windows Auth connection to SQL Auth on the other connection?
A parent can have many children - always has at least one.
A parent always has an 'anti-parent' with an equal number of 'anti-children' to the normal parent
Each child and anti child has a unique ID
I need to reconcile each Parent/antiParent Child/antichild and highlight the differences before.
Normally, reconciliation reports are fairly straightforward due to the fixed number of items, I'm not quite sure of the best way to do this.
How it should look in the report
PARENT A field1,field2,...,field n PARENT B field1,field2,...,field n CHILD A1 childfield1,cf2,....cf n (child A1 and B1 share a unique ID) CHILD B1 childfield1,cf2.....cf n CHILD A2 CHILD B2 ... CHILD An CHILD Bn
So, compare PARENT A with PARENT B and highlight any differences compare CHILDA1 with CHILD B1 and highlight any differences ... compare CHILDAn with CHILD Bn and highlight any differences
Native backups to NAS do not complete.We have been experiencing an issue whereby our native backups are hanging with status': SUSPENDED/ RUNNABLE...I ran select * from sys.sysprocesses. All of the backup SPIDs processes show BACKUPTHREAD/PREEMPTIVE_OS_FILEOPS
This first occurred last Wednesday evening. When I discovered this on Thursday, I attempted to kill the backup jobs. This also hung with 0% completed/0% time remaining. Backups hung on more than one instance.That evening, I attempted to restart the instance which also failed with something along the lines of: could not start MASTER file in use.
I then restarted the server--which I really did not want to do--and this cleared it. I was also able to manually kick off maintenance plans (DBCC CHECKDB and full backup) without issue.I was off Friday and the weekend. I came in this morning and found the maintenance plans (diff/tlog backups) did not complete in some of the instances--in one case, the instance affected now was not affected before. They appeared to have hung on their next scheduled kickoff which was later that night after I went home
Remembering the "file in use" error, I have run process monitor to see if anything unusual had a lock on any files. I saw only SQL Server and Double-Take processes accessing log files.Being a relatively new DBA, I am user where to go next in trying to track down the cause of this issue. This is fairly urgent as one of the instances that has had this problem both times is our production SharePoint environment.
ENVIRONMENT:
SQL version: Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (SP1) - 11.0.3368.0 (X64) May 22 2013 17:10:44 Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation Enterprise Edition: Core-based Licensing (64-bit) on Windows NT 6.2 <X64> (Build 9200: )
We have 5 instances on our clients old machine with SQL 2005, now they want us to move on cluster environment with SQL 2012.
Once I have installed and configured SQL cluster with single instance, but how to install SQL Cluster environment for Multiple instances.
Should I install all the instances first and than have to configure cluster ? OR Is there any way that first I will install cluster and than we can add the instances ?
What I have- Sql server 2012 (Standard Ed) Cluster on Windows 2012 R2 with both instances running on the same node- just to save on License, i.e. technically it’s Act/Pas cluster.
What I am looking for- how to configure cluster (e.g. via quorum, etc) to force both instances failed together? Means if for some reason 1-st instance will fail to node 2 another instance should follow (otherwise it will be Act/Act cluster and 2-nd license is required).
If there is no standard way (cluster configuration I mean) to do it I should create some custom process to monitor where each instance is running.
Curious what the industry standard is combining multiple instances on single server ?
Right now i have separate servers for OLTP, SSAS, and SSIS, and for OTP have Development, Test, and production environments. Im considering combining the SSIS and SSAS services into additional instances on each environment servers.
Now (Production) OLTP SSAS SSIS
After
1 Server with 3 separate instances for SSAS, SSIS, OLTP. Then replicate this model through the environments to utilize development and testing.
I am new to SQL Server and I am trying to create a script / possible a cursor that will allow me to create multiple logins in one pass - without having to type each one.
I have 20 users USER1, USER2, USER3, USER4... but I can't seem to figure out how to get those users into a loop so I can end up with something like this.
CREATE LOGIN <user> FROM WINDOWS WITH DEFAULT_DATABASE=[master], DEFAULT_LANGUAGE=[English]......
I realize I can type this statement 20 times but perhaps there is a faster way -
I am working on a Login migration issue. I have the Master database from the original database, that I have attached as a User Database, call it OriginalMaster. I also renamed the mdf and ldf files, before attaching, just in case.
I want to select the logins from the OriginalMaster, and using sp_help_revlogin script all the Logins out. I know there were many logins in that database. But what I am seeing, are all the Logins from the Current Master database. Which are only 7 Logins.
How can I select the logins, or script out the Logins from the OriginalMaster database?
It is an active passive cluster which doesn’t allow any testing. All instances have to be failed over together, we aren’t allowed to just failover 1 even for testing purposes. Node 1 is the active node and we can failover to node 2 for 30 days free of charge but services have to then be failed back.
We need to run the cluster with node 1 as the primary node always and 2 just use for failover testing or for less than 30 day periods whilst performing cluster patch upgrades etc.
Now l am sure we could fail over 1 instances at a time for testing and diagnosing issues plus if add a new instance that's not production to get to the platform level as the rest of the instances this would avoid taking production down in the fail over process.
We are just finishing our migration to SQL 2012. In our old environment, the instance which held our SharePoint databases also served other applications. We did not experience any performance related issues in the past due to this.
SharePoint basically requires MAXDOP to be 1, which is correct on the old server. Since this configuration may not be ideal for other applications that may be put within our environment, we our entertaining the idea of isolating SharePoint into its own instance, probably on the same box.
My manager wants me to come up with performance trace data to better prove that we need to go this route since we apparently have had issues in the past by blindly following Microsoft's best practices.
1.MAXDOP configuration - I understand this may be a 2 pronged approach that would require looking at various execution plans and CPU related counters in Perfmon. SharePoint likely requires a maxdop of 1 due to the nature of the application (lots of concurrent processes). What is the best way to show this need graphically?
2. Memory configuration for multiple instances - Does the Total Server Memory reveal all the memory that a given SQL instance is utilizing? Should I use this counter to identify appropriate min/max memory configurations for multiple instances on a single cluster?
The problem with the perfmon approach is that it's scope is limited to just the server. Since our SharePoint environment is currently being shared with other applications, I understand that I may have to utilize DMV statistics to narrow down my analysis.
I have a package on the default instance which runs and completes successfully. When that package is moved to the same SQL server, but a different instance, running under the same service account, it fails. The error is below with some specific stuff removed:
Delete Data from Level 1:Error: Executing the query "-- Variable to capture FileID's DECLARE @DeleteFil..." failed with the following error: "The DELETE permission was denied on the object '[name removed]', database '[]', schema '[]'.". Possible failure reasons:
Problems with the query, "ResultSet" property not set correctly, parameters not set correctly, or connection not established correctly.
This makes me think that the package under the non-default instance ends up running under a different security context.
