I have a few SQL Server databases (all in one server), containing their own set of users. Now I'm trying to design a small application that would query those users and then display them in a report (TBD). I've looked over online how to do this, however I didn't find any. Is it possible in SQL Server to retrieve all the users of a database? If so, how?
On SQL Server 2005 and up:
connect to that specific database you're interested in
USE Databasename
execute this query
SELECT * FROM sys.database_principals
That gives you a slew of information on all users defined in the database
See the MSDN documentation for a detailed explanation of all rows returned from that view.
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I have two databases, one in SQL Server and one in Azure SQL Synapse. Now I want to have one single query that should be done between two tables from these different servers.
For example:
SQL Server name : server1
Database name : db1
Table name : tb1
Azure Synapse name : prod-synapse-2
Database name : db2
Table name : tb2
Now query should be like this:
select
tb1.col1, tb1.col2, tb2.col3, tb2.col4
from
tb1
outer join
tb2 on tb1.col5 = tb2.col5
The above query is very simple to join two tables from the same database or two tables from the 2 different database within same server.
But I want suggestions to have the above query between 2 different servers.
I have seen in many stackoverflow questions similar to this, they suggested an answer using Linked Server, but that cannot be done in my case, because I will not be provided with access to create Linked server, and link the 2 servers in Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
Thanks in advance
Another way to query a database hosted in a remote SQL Server is the OPENROWSET T-SQL function. To use the OPENROWSET ad hoc method, you need to provide all connection information that is required to connect to the remote SQL server and many other resources.
Using OPENROWSET requires enabling the Ad Hoc Distributed Queries advanced configuration option same as the OPENDATASOURCE function.
You need to provide the provider’s name, the connection string and the query as follows:
OPENROWSET(‘providername’,’datascource,’query)
I want to copy data from one database table into another database table on the same server in Azure SQL. I have done all of the Azure SQL Cross Database Query' steps that are written here https://www.mssqltips.com/sqlservertip/6445/azure-sql-cross-database-query/but still get the same error whenever I execute a query
'Reference to database and/or server name in 'db name' is not supported in this version of SQL Server.'
Can you pls help to figure out this?
Azure SQL database doesn't support across query directly.
We can not use USE statements and it not supported. That's why you get the error. We can not run statements like select * from [other_database].[schema].[table].
In Azure SQL database, only elastic query overview (preview) can achieve cross database query:
The elastic query feature (in preview) enables you to run a
Transact-SQL query that spans multiple databases in Azure SQL
Database. It allows you to perform cross-database queries to access
remote tables, and to connect Microsoft and third-party tools (Excel,
Power BI, Tableau, etc.) to query across data tiers with multiple
databases.
You could follow the tutorial and it may be more complex than on-premise SQL Server:
Get started with cross-database queries (vertical partitioning) (preview)
I would like to capture the truncate statements information along with the user/Login information for all database in my production server.
Example:
Use mydb
go
truncate table deleteme_table
I would like to capture the information into the table like the below
Table Operation Database Login Time
deleteme_table Truncate mydb sandeep.pulikonda 17-12-2014 17:50:00
If the above scenario is not possible please suggest possible ways to capture it
I am using SQL Server 2012 Standard version. So granular level audit are not supported for that version.
you can use the SQL Server Audit functionality and add an audit for those queries.
this article explains in detail how to obtain this.
Another good way of profiling your SQL Server is using SQL Profiler. Here is a SO question similar to yours and an answer describing how to use SQL Profiler to achieve the results.
SQL Server Profiler - How to filter trace to only display TSQL containing a DELETE statement?
In Sql Server 2000, is it possible to return, via SQL query, a complete list of database roles that exist in a given database?
I know it is possible to see these roles by expanding the Security, Roles, and Database Roles nodes in SQL Server Management Studio, but I'd like to get them through a query that I can parse programmatically.
To clarify, I'm not looking for a list of users with their roles, but just the list of roles themselves.
Every database in SQL Server 2000 has a sysusers system table
Probably something like
Use <MyDatabase>
Select
[name]
From
sysusers
Where
issqlrole = 1
will do the trick
With our SQL Server 2016 this works for me
Use Sandbox
Select
name, principal_id
From
sys.database_principals
Where
type = 'R' and principal_id < 16384
where Sandbox is the name of my database.
(I'm using SQL with ESRI ArcGIS Enterprise 10.6.)
I have database connection to database DB1. The only thing I could do - execute any t-sql statements including using stored procedures. I want to export the specific table (or even the specific rows of specific table) to my local database. As you can read abve, DBs are on diffrent servers meaning no direct connection is possible. Therefore question: Is it possible to write query that returns the other query to execute on local server and get data? Also note, that table contains BLOBs. Thanks.
If you have SQL Server Management Studio, you can use the data import function on your local database to get the data. It works as long as you have Read/Select access on the tables you are trying to copy.
If you have Visual Studio you can use the database tools in there to move data between two servers as long as you can connect to both from your workstation.
Needs Ultimate or Premium though:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd193261.aspx
RedGate has some usefull tools too:
http://www.red-gate.com/products/sql-development/sql-compare/features
Maybe you should ask at https://dba.stackexchange.com/ instead.
If you can login to the remote db (where you can only issue t-sql), you may create linked server on your local server to the remote and use it later directly in queries, like:
select * from [LinkedServerName].[DatabaseName].[SchemaName].[TableName]