Help with scripting to change users default database

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Help with scripting to change users default database

Martin Balbo

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January 26, 2006 at 9:55 am

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Hi friends!

I have to change the default database of 150 users (Now Default Db is master )
I tought how to make an script to do this, like a cursor doing a "select name from syslogins where...... " but how can i change the user's default db property?

Thanks for help.

Tincho

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K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114602 More actions · Answer 1

Build a query like the following:

SELECT 'EXEC sp_defaultdb ''' + name + ''', ''<new database>'''
FROM syslogins

And the output should be what you want. Out of curiosity, though, why are you changing from a default db of master?

K. Brian Kelley
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Martin Balbo SSC Eights! Points: 874 More actions · Answer 2

Thanks for your Reply. This is a audit issue. They say that a user need to have a default database different that master (preferably the users databases)

K. Brian Kelley SSC Guru Points: 114602 More actions · Answer 3

Okay... but whoever is conducting the audit hopefully realizes that this doesn't keep the user out of master. The guest user is enabled in master (and is required) and therefore if a user can log on to SQL Server or execute a typed in query, the user can get to master.

K. Brian Kelley
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