Backup and restore databases and access rights

Hi,

I am creating a way of working in order to "copy" databases from a master SQL Server 2000 database to the developers local machines.

I want to create a master SQL Server at our office location. Whenever our developers works on site the master is used. To be able to work locally, a backup has been created of the master and is distributed to the developers. On their local machines, they restore the database to be able to develop locally.

I have created a backup on my laptop using on my domain account (not the account that created the database, but I can use it when developing). I moved the backup file to another computer and restored it using my domain account on that computer. I could not see all of the tables, users or stored procedures, only those which type are System, not User. When i log in to the local administrators account I can see them all. When I log back into my domain account I can see all of the tables.

Anyone knows why?

/M

SQL Enterprise Manager doesn't refresh objects very well. You actually have to force it to refresh sometimes by hitting F5 and even that doesn't always work. Something to try in this case is a quick select statement in query analyzer of a table that you know should be there. Typically it will either show the results or give you the error associated with permissions.

It also sounds like it could be db permissions problems. Typically, SEM connects to the local server via the sa login. So when you login as yourself, you are probably connecting to the server as yourself in SEM. Also keep in mind that objects are owned by their creators and unless permissions are specifically granted for other users/roles or the current user is an admin, you won't be able to work with these objects. So if you created objects under one login (such as sa) you may not be able to see them under another login (such as your domain account). sp_changeobjectowner is a way to modify the owner for each object. sp_MScheck_uid_owns_anything will help determine if the user owns anything; just use the id of the user as the only parameter.

Another option would be to grant all permissions to the public role for all objects as they are created. This is not advised because you are not using SQL Security like it should. But roles are a good thing in environments like this, but these take some setup and administration time.