How to get the list of all database users

For the SQL Server Owner, you should be able to use:

select suser_sname(owner_sid) as 'Owner', state_desc, *
from sys.databases

For a list of SQL Users:

select * from master.sys.server_principals

Ref. SQL Server Tip: How to find the owner of a database through T-SQL

How do you test for the existence of a user in SQL Server?


Whenever you 'see' something in the GUI (SSMS) and you're like "that's what I need", you can always run Sql Profiler to fish for the query that was used.

Run Sql Profiler. Attach it to your database of course.

Then right click in the GUI (in SSMS) and click "Refresh".
And then go see what Profiler "catches".

I got the below when I was in MyDatabase / Security / Users and clicked "refresh" on the "Users".

Again, I didn't come up with the WHERE clause and the LEFT OUTER JOIN, it was a part of the SSMS query. And this query is something that somebody at Microsoft has written (you know, the peeps who know the product inside and out, aka, the experts), so they are familiar with all the weird "flags" in the database.

But the SSMS/GUI -> Sql Profiler tricks works in many scenarios.

SELECT
u.name AS [Name],
'Server[@Name=' + quotename(CAST(
        serverproperty(N'Servername')
       AS sysname),'''') + ']' + '/Database[@Name=' + quotename(db_name(),'''') + ']' + '/User[@Name=' + quotename(u.name,'''') + ']' AS [Urn],
u.create_date AS [CreateDate],
u.principal_id AS [ID],
CAST(CASE dp.state WHEN N'G' THEN 1 WHEN 'W' THEN 1 ELSE 0 END AS bit) AS [HasDBAccess]
FROM
sys.database_principals AS u
LEFT OUTER JOIN sys.database_permissions AS dp ON dp.grantee_principal_id = u.principal_id and dp.type = 'CO'
WHERE
(u.type in ('U', 'S', 'G', 'C', 'K' ,'E', 'X'))
ORDER BY
[Name] ASC

EXEC sp_helpuser

or

SELECT * FROM sysusers

Both of these select all the users of the current database (not the server).

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Sql Server