Re: User names

From: Kalen Delaney (replies_at_public_newsgroups.com)
Date: 12/25/04


Date: Sat, 25 Dec 2004 15:36:55 -0800

I have no idea. I have never upsized from Access.

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HTH
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Kalen Delaney
SQL Server MVP
www.SolidQualityLearning.com
"Laura K" <klkazanAT@ATcharter.net> wrote in message 
news:%23UoxqNr6EHA.128@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
> With SP3 will tables created by upsizing from access also be dbo owned as 
> well?  The user is a db_owner.
>
> Laura
>
>
> "Kalen Delaney" <replies@public_newsgroups.com> wrote in message 
> news:u9TfNZi6EHA.3840@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>I don't have a pre-sp3 server to try this on, but in sp3, if you are a 
>>user in the db_owner role, in EM tables that you created will be owned by 
>>dbo by default.
>>
>> However, to avoid this confusion, and for other reasons as well, EM is 
>> really not recommended for creating tables. You have much more control in 
>> query analyzer by actually using the full table definition statement, and 
>> explicitly stating the owner name. This could be done prior to sp3 as 
>> well, byjust specifically giving the owner name in QA.
>>
>> -- 
>> HTH
>> ----------------
>> Kalen Delaney
>> SQL Server MVP
>> www.SolidQualityLearning.com
>>
>>
>> "Laura K" <klkazanAT@ATcharter.net> wrote in message 
>> news:OlqMckf6EHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>>> Nope I tested it in the EM before I added the SP.  My username was the 
>>> owner.  I tested it again an hour later and after installing the SP and 
>>> dbo was the owner.
>>>
>>> I do not have the ability to change the account or username.  I can not 
>>> log into the server as a dbo or sa. It is remotely hosted by my web 
>>> hosting company. My user name is a database owner but that made no 
>>> difference before the SP.  My only access is through the EM or the QA or 
>>> through my website. The only way I can log in is with my assigned 
>>> username and password as given to me by crystaltech my host company.  If 
>>> I change my account it is only done via email with a password and the 
>>> host company must manually do it.
>>>
>>> Laura
>>>
>>>
>>> "Andrew J. Kelly" <sqlmvpnooospam@shadhawk.com> wrote in message 
>>> news:u4PR83b6EHA.1392@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>> No that is a wrong assumption.  Unless you specifically list the owner 
>>>> when you create the object it will be one of two things.  If you are 
>>>> logged in as a dbo or sa it will use dbo as the owner.  Otherwise it 
>>>> will use the owner that you are logged in as.  IN the case of EM it is 
>>>> determined by the account that server was registered under.  It is my 
>>>> guess that somewhere between the two you changed the account or login 
>>>> that you used for what ever tool you did this through.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -- 
>>>> Andrew J. Kelly  SQL MVP
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> "Laura K" <klkazanAT@ATcharter.net> wrote in message 
>>>> news:OwGs5rX6EHA.1396@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>>>>> Well learned something really important today I thought I would pass 
>>>>> on.
>>>>>
>>>>> The issue was resolved by installing SP3 for SQL server.
>>>>>
>>>>> Now no matter where I create the tables, now that I have installed the 
>>>>> SP, the owner is dbo and not username.  Apparently I was doing 
>>>>> everything right (except keeping track of updates).
>>>>>
>>>>> Laura K
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> "Laura K" <klkazanAT@ATcharter.net> wrote in message 
>>>>> news:eWsxhjT6EHA.3504@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...
>>>>>>I am using a remotely hosted SQL for a website.  The host company has 
>>>>>>given me three user names and passwords.  When I create tables either 
>>>>>>in the EM or by using Access and upsizing the tables are owned by the 
>>>>>>user name.  I need them to be owned by dbo.  What am I doing wrong?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
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> 


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