Create Second sa Account (sa2) on SQL 6.5?

On the latest SQL 6.5 with the latest SQL 6.5 service pack, what's the
trick to creating an account besides sa that has the power to create
databases? I was thinking of calling this account 'sa2'. Why do this?
Well, my boss asked me to do it because of a SOX audit + SAS-70 audit
kind of thing.

I tried using the GUI to do it, but then when using the GUI as sa2, I
find the "Create Database" has been greyed out.

I have a funny feeling that the only way to get this is to hack the
sys* tables, which is a little risky.

Oh, and trust me, if I had the political weight in my company to get
off SQL 6.5, I would, but I don't. And mgmt already knows that SQL 6.5
is past support timeframe and is a ticking timebomb.Sounds like the SOX audit has given you another excellent reason to upgrade.
Tell the boss.

Sorry, I'm not familiar with 6.5. In 7.0 or 2000 you would create a login
and grant it the dbcreator or sysadmin role. I don't think this was the same
in 6.5 though.

--
David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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> On the latest SQL 6.5 with the latest SQL 6.5 service pack, what's the
> trick to creating an account besides sa that has the power to create
> databases? I was thinking of calling this account 'sa2'. Why do this?
> Well, my boss asked me to do it because of a SOX audit + SAS-70 audit
> kind of thing.
> I tried using the GUI to do it, but then when using the GUI as sa2, I
> find the "Create Database" has been greyed out.
> I have a funny feeling that the only way to get this is to hack the
> sys* tables, which is a little risky.

On SQL 6.5, there is one 'sa' and that's 'sa'. You can login with
Windows Authentication, and if you belong to BUILTIN/Administrators
you will be sa, not DOMAIN\User as on later versions.

As for the particular example of CREATE DATABASE, this is something you can
give to other users, by means of the GRANT statement. But you cannot
granr all rights that 'sa' to other people.

--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@.sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techin.../2000/books.asp

Create PDF File

I have an application in Power Builder 6.5 and I use SQL Server 2000.
How Can I create pdf files?
I want to create pdf files using Power or SQL.
Is it possible?
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I guess you cannot create PDF files using SQL Server 2000. I don't know about
Powerbuilder. Adobe has a PDF file creation services. Please take a look at
http://www.adobe.com/products/server/docgen.html
Did you mean storing PDF files in SQL Server 2000?
"Karla Gomez" wrote:

> I have an application in Power Builder 6.5 and I use SQL Server 2000.
> How Can I create pdf files?
> I want to create pdf files using Power or SQL.
> Is it possible?
>
>
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|||Vikas,
While you may not be able to directly create Adobe PDF files directly with
T-SQL (and I'm still researching this), you can use a 3rd party tool and a
T-SQL query and generate a PDF file as the output. Specificly, see
ceTesoftware at http://www.dynamicpdf.com/ and their product DynamicPDF
ReportWriter and code example at:
http://www.dynamicpdf.com/Products/R...r/Examples.csp
The basic program flow for a script using DynamicPDF? ReportWriter is as
follows:
Create a report object.
Define the database connection and query.
Add report elements (i.e. RecordBox) to the header, section header, body,
section footer and/or footer.
Generate (Draw) the PDF report.
ASP Example Script: <!-- METADATA TYPE="typelib"
UUID="{567E47DC-8220-403F-B348-EB9A035648BB}" -->
<%
Dim objReport
Set objReport = Server.CreateObject("DPDF_RptWtr.Report")
With objReport.Command
'An ADO Connection String (Northwind DB in this example)
.ActiveConnection = "File Name = " & Server.MapPath("Northwind.udl")
'A SQL Query
.CommandText = "SELECT CompanyName FROM Customers"
End With
With objReport.Header
.Height = 24
.AddLabel "Header goes here", 0, 0, 504, 12
End With
With objReport.Body
.Height = 12
.AddRecordBox "CompanyName", 0, 0, 504, 12
End With
objReport.DrawToASP
Set objReport = Nothing
%>
And the following link demostrates a dynamiclly built PDF file:
http://www.dynamicpdf.com/Products/R...t_Verdana.aspx
I'm sure there are other such products as SQL Server 2000 Reporting Services
supports writing the output to the PDF format.
Regards,
John
"Vikas Ahuja [MSFT]" wrote:
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> I guess you cannot create PDF files using SQL Server 2000. I don't know about
> Powerbuilder. Adobe has a PDF file creation services. Please take a look at
> http://www.adobe.com/products/server/docgen.html
> Did you mean storing PDF files in SQL Server 2000?
> "Karla Gomez" wrote:
|||Karla & Vikas,
I knew I had seen how to do this somewhere...
Creating a PDF from a Stored Procedure
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/colu...dprocedure.asp
Regards,
John
"John Kane" <JohnKane@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:DC2A1EB6-DEF1-47DA-919C-22A7336C5638@.microsoft.com...
> Vikas,
> While you may not be able to directly create Adobe PDF files directly with
> T-SQL (and I'm still researching this), you can use a 3rd party tool and a
> T-SQL query and generate a PDF file as the output. Specificly, see
> ceTesoftware at http://www.dynamicpdf.com/ and their product DynamicPDF
> ReportWriter and code example at:
> http://www.dynamicpdf.com/Products/R...r/Examples.csp
> The basic program flow for a script using DynamicPDFT ReportWriter is as
> follows:
> Create a report object.
> Define the database connection and query.
> Add report elements (i.e. RecordBox) to the header, section header, body,
> section footer and/or footer.
> Generate (Draw) the PDF report.
> ASP Example Script: <!-- METADATA TYPE="typelib"
> UUID="{567E47DC-8220-403F-B348-EB9A035648BB}" -->
> <%
> Dim objReport
> Set objReport = Server.CreateObject("DPDF_RptWtr.Report")
> With objReport.Command
> 'An ADO Connection String (Northwind DB in this example)
> .ActiveConnection = "File Name = " & Server.MapPath("Northwind.udl")
> 'A SQL Query
> .CommandText = "SELECT CompanyName FROM Customers"
> End With
> With objReport.Header
> .Height = 24
> .AddLabel "Header goes here", 0, 0, 504, 12
> End With
> With objReport.Body
> .Height = 12
> .AddRecordBox "CompanyName", 0, 0, 504, 12
> End With
> objReport.DrawToASP
> Set objReport = Nothing
> %>
> And the following link demostrates a dynamiclly built PDF file:
>
http://www.dynamicpdf.com/Products/R...t_Verdana.aspx
> I'm sure there are other such products as SQL Server 2000 Reporting
Services[vbcol=seagreen]
> supports writing the output to the PDF format.
> Regards,
> John
>
>
>
> "Vikas Ahuja [MSFT]" wrote:
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|||hello Karla,
did you find a solution to this problem? Did you use the acrobat writer or stored procedure? how difficult is it to create pdf's on the fly?
bev
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|||Hi Bev,
Yes, I did find a solution to this problem. You can use T-SQL and therefore
stored procedures via the methods documented at:
Creating a PDF from a Stored Procedure
http://www.sqlservercentral.com/colu...dprocedure.asp
Regards,
John
"bev harris" wrote:

> hello Karla,
> did you find a solution to this problem? Did you use the acrobat writer or stored procedure? how difficult is it to create pdf's on the fly?
> bev
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I have used version 3 which was a COM component with .NET 1.0 and it worked
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I have never used this product...
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"Karla Gomez" wrote:

> I have an application in Power Builder 6.5 and I use SQL Server 2000.
> How Can I create pdf files?
> I want to create pdf files using Power or SQL.
> Is it possible?
>
>
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