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If you are running sp_change_users_login 'Report' to get that list of orphaned users it will return the SID expected.

Just take that SID and create your login with the same SID:

CREATE LOGIN [mylogin] WITH PASSWORD='', SID = <SID for orphaned user>

This should allow your login to be mapped to that user in the database and allow you to access the database.

If you want to copy a login from production to your development box you can query sys.syslogins to get the SID, or just use sp_help_revlogin procedure from KB918992.

If you are running sp_change_users_login 'Report' to get that list of orphaned users it will return the SID expected.

Just take that SID and create your login with the same SID:

CREATE LOGIN [mylogin] WITH PASSWORD='', SID = <SID for orphaned user>

This should allow your login to be mapped to that user in the database and allow you to access the database.

If you are running sp_change_users_login 'Report' to get that list of orphaned users it will return the SID expected.

Just take that SID and create your login with the same SID:

CREATE LOGIN [mylogin] WITH PASSWORD='', SID = <SID for orphaned user>

This should allow your login to be mapped to that user in the database and allow you to access the database.

If you want to copy a login from production to your development box you can query sys.syslogins to get the SID, or just use sp_help_revlogin procedure from KB918992.

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user507
user507

If you are running sp_change_users_login 'Report' to get that list of orphaned users it will return the SID expected.

Just take that SID and create your login with the same SID:

CREATE LOGIN [mylogin] WITH PASSWORD='', SID = <SID for orphaned user>

This should allow your login to be mapped to that user in the database and allow you to access the database.