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Asked: 2026-06-09T03:38:00+00:00

I’m trying to make a basic, plain-text password login and database user for a

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I’m trying to make a basic, plain-text password login and database user for a locally running instance of SQL Server 2008. I’m using the following SQL code to make the logins, add the user, and give permissions, but I cannot connect to the server with SSMS or SQLCMD (which works fine when I use my domain credentials and Integrated Security).

 USE <database_name>
 GO
 CREATE LOGIN aspLogin with password=N'pass1',
DEFAULT_DATABASE=<default_db>, CHECK_POLICY = OFF
 GO
 CREATE USER aspLogin FOR LOGIN aspLogin
 EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datareader', N'aspLogin'
 EXEC sp_addrolemember N'db_datawriter', N'aspLogin'
 GO
 USE master
 GO
 GRANT CONNECT SQL TO aspLogin

Using SQLCMD:

C:\>sqlcmd -S .\SQL -P pass1 -U aspLogin
Msg 18456, Level 14, State 1, Server <machine_name>\SQL, Line 1
Login failed for user 'aspLogin'.

What am I missing? Is this a problem with using “.\SQL” (which is the correct name of the instance, not the default instance name). For example, this works fine:

C:\>sqlcmd -S .\SQL -E
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  1. Editorial Team

    Make sure mixed mode authentication is enabled.

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188670(v=sql.105).aspx

    You can easily check the authentication mode using 

    exec master.sys.xp_loginconfig 'login mode'
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