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Asked: 2026-05-11T05:03:49+00:00

I want to write a SQL 2005 script to create a new login that

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I want to write a SQL 2005 script to create a new login that uses Windows authentication. The Windows user is a local account (not a domain one). A local account with the same name exists on many SQL Server machines and I want to run the same script on all of them.

It seemed simple enough:

CREATE LOGIN [MyUser] FROM WINDOWS

However, that doesn’t work! SQL returns an error, saying Give the complete name: <domain\username>.

Of course, I can do that for one machine and it works, but the same script will not work on other machines.

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  1. Looks like sp_executesql is the answer, as beach posted. I’ll post mine as well, because @@SERVERNAME doesn’t work correctly if you use named SQL instances, as we do.

    DECLARE @loginName SYSNAME SET @loginName = CAST(SERVERPROPERTY('MachineName') AS SYSNAME) + '\MyUser'  IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.server_principals WHERE [name] = @loginName) BEGIN     DECLARE @sql NVARCHAR(1000)     SET @sql = 'CREATE LOGIN [' + @loginName + '] FROM WINDOWS'     EXEC sp_executesql @sql END
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