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SQL Server FAQ - "CREATE USER" - Creating a User Name in a Database

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How To Create a User Name in a Database?

User names are security principals at the database level. If you want to allow a login name to access a specific database, you need to create a user name in that database and link it to the login name.

Creating a user name can be done by using the "CREATE USER" statement as shown in this tutorial exercise:

-- Login with "sa"

-- Create a login
CREATE LOGIN Fyi_Login WITH PASSWORD = 'IYF'
GO

-- Select a database
USE FyiCenterData;
GO

-- Create a user and link it to a login
CREATE USER Fyi_User FOR LOGIN Fyi_Login;
GO

Login name "Fyi_Login" should be able to access database "FyiCenterData" through user name "Fyi_User".

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1. What Is the Security Model Used in SQL Server 2005?
2. What Are Security Principals Used in SQL Server 2005?
3. What Is the Security Principal at the Server Level That Represents Your Session?
4. What Is the Security Principal at the Database Level That Represents Your Session?
5. How To Create a New Login Name in SQL Server?
6. How To Verify a Login name with SQLCMD Tool?
7. How To List All Login Names on the Server?
8. How To Change the Password of a Login Name?
9. How To Change a Login Name?
10. How To Disable a Login Name?
11. How To Delete a Login Name?
12. How To Create a User Name in a Database?
13. How To List All User Names in a Database?
14. How To Find the Login Name Linked to a Given User Name?
15. How To Verify a User name with SQLCMD Tool?
16. How To Change the Name of a Database User?
17. How To Delete an Existing Database User?