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Can't store users in the default MVC application

I had some problems with using the authorization before so I got a brand new everything - new computer, new OS, fresh installation of VS, new app and DB in a new resource group on the Azure. The whole shabang.
I can confirm that I can log in to the Azure DB as the screenshots below show.
I can see the databases, tables, users etc.
The problem is that, although it works locally (using the default connection string provided automagically for me), it doesn't perform very well in the Azure (although I'm using the publish file from there). It said something about the file not being found and according to this answer, I needed to change the connection string.
After I've altered it, I get the following error. Please note that the firewall is open and that I can access the DB when I run the code of my applications. I feel that there's something that goes wrong when the authentication part is automatically configured. I'm out of ideas on how to trouble-shoot it, though.
[SqlException (0x80131904): Login failed for user 'Chamster'.
This session has been assigned a tracing ID of '09121235-87f3-4a92-a371-50bc475306ca'. Provide this tracing ID to customer support when you need assistance.]
The connection string I'm using is this.
Server=tcp:f8goq0bvq7.database.windows.net,1433;
Database=Squicker;
User ID=Chamster#f8goq0bvq7;
Password=Abc123();
Encrypt=True;
TrustServerCertificate=False;
Connection Timeout=10;
This issue's bothered me for a while and I'll be bounting it in two days. Any suggestion's warmly appreciated.

I believe I've managed to resolve this weird issue. It appears that the user I'm using, despite being admin with all bells and whistles isn't recognized as admin when used in the connection string and trying to create the tables (which is the case at the first registration).
My solution was to create two logins - one with db_owner role and one with db_datareader and db_datawriter. First, I've used the elevated user in my connection string and registered a single user. That created the tables in the database as shown below.
Then, while able to continue as admin, I realized that we should try the demoted user and tada!, it worked perfectly. Once the tables were there, the whole shabeling behaved as expected.
To be perfectly sure, I dropped the tables from the database and there it was - the same issues as before. When I changed to the elevated user, the tables were restored allowing me to get back to the demoted one.
I also tried dropping the tables, confirming the issues to re-appear and then creating the tables manually. That works too! So basically,the only gotcha that caused it all was the original admin who's not treated as admin.
It might have to do with the fact that my Azure account's getting a bit old, LiveID used there is ancient and that didn't have an updated version of DB in Azure (the pull-up to v12 was carried out the 18th of December, so it's possible that it also was a requirement to get it working). I'm too tired and lazy to check that out and I realize that I've no idea how to get an "old" type of account. Besides, the issue will decrease and gradually vanish because the old accounts get upgraded eventually.

Cannot open database "ASPState" requested by the login. The login failed. Login failed for user 'xxxx'

I am working on one project which is in Asp.Net web form and Sql server. When I run application I get the error Unable to connect Sql Server Session Database and inner exception is Cannot open database ASPState requested by the login.
I did some google search to fix this issue. I don't have sa password so i cannot logged in as sa to assign privileges to ASPState database for the newly created User.
I don't see any ASPState database on Sql Server when i logged in. So i thought I might need to run aspnet reg exe on my machine. So i tried to run aspnetreg_regsql.exe but i got the following error.
An error occurred during the execution of the SQL file
'InstallCommon.sql'. The SQL error number is 5170 and the SqlException
message is: Cannot create file 'C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL
Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\DATA\aspnetdb.mdf' because it
already exists. Change the file path or the file name, and retry the
operation.
CREATE DATABASE failed. Some file names listed could not be created. Check related errors.
Creating the aspnetdb database...
I am totally blank now to solve this issue, I will really appreciate your suggestion for this. This issue hold to publish on production.

Dont think that there is a simple answer to this with the permissions that you have, I think that what has happened is that the database HAS been created, but the user you are using does not have any access to it at all.
Without having an administrators credentials I dont think that you will be able to resolve the problem.
You can however work around it by re-creating the database with a different name:
aspnet_regsql -d[YourNewDBName] -RestOfYourParamaters
That should allow you to re-run the creation script, however there is no guarantee that you wont end up with the same issue on the newly created database.

You should issue the command DROP DATABASE aspnetdb and then re-run your script.

'InstallCommon.sql' surely ain't any database. It must be a script that installs a new Database, as the name suggests. Run the script, and then link the generated database

Developing with Azure Mobile Services in a local computer[.Net backend]

I'm developing a cloud service using Azure Mobile Services, and in order to test it quickly and debug it, I want to deploy it in my local computer. I select the project, hit F5, got it running in IIS express in my local PC. I execute the cliente against my local URI address of the IIS service and when I try to insert a value, this exception appears if I try to retrieve or insert a new object:
An exception of type 'System.ArgumentException' occurred in EntityFramework.SqlServer.dll but was not handled in user code
Additional information: The database name 'TR_MyTrip_Server_ExtraData_Service]_Persons_InsertUpdateDelete' is invalid. Database names must be of the form [<schema_name>.]<object_name>.
I debugged the Initialization of the controller and found out that mobile services deploys a LocalDb instance with this connection info on the DataBase property of the ServiceContext object:
Data Source=(localdb)\v11.0;AttachDbFilename=|DataDirectory|\aspnet-MyTrip.Server.ExtraData.Service-20140731060708.mdf;Initial Catalog=aspnet-TestProject.Server.ExtraData.Service-20140731060708;Integrated Security=True;MultipleActiveResultSets=True
It is not able to find this DataBase if I try to connect with this connection string to the LocalDB via the SQL Management Studio
I'm able to access to the LocalDb instance with the SQL management studio running this command on CMD and retrieving the Connection for the LocalDB
SqlLocalDB.exe info v11.0
Eitherway, on the SQL Management Studio I'm not able to see any DataBase relating my controller of the Mobile Services. I searched on google and the only related link I found was this but is not working... Does anybody know what's happening?
Thank you so much

This is a problem when you have a project name with periods in it. Like TestProject.Server.ExtraData.Service.
To fix this, go into the web.config and edit the appsetting named "MS_MobileServiceName" taking out the periods. This is the value used as the SQL schema name for your mobile service tables in the database. It can't have periods or other special characters in it.
I generally try to make this the same as the name of the mobile service I'll deploy to, but it's not technically required.

For whatever reason, I couldn't get this working using the accepted answer. I assume this has something to do with the disclaimer in web.config which states:
After publishing to Mobile Services, these settings will be overridden by the values specified in the portal.
However, I did find another work around in the MobileServiceContext file where I replaced this line:
string schema = ServiceSettingsDictionary.GetSchemaName();
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(schema))
{
modelBuilder.HasDefaultSchema(schema);
}
with a simple string value modelBuilder.HasDefaultSchema('mySchema');
I imagine there's a way to influence the output of GetSchemaName() but, considering how much effort it took to resolve this problem, I am perfectly content with this solution for now.

If you've changed the MS_MobileServiceName in config to remove the periods, and you're still getting the error, you'll need to re-run the scaffolding for the Initial migration in the package manager console:
Add-Migration Initial -Force
From what I could see, the scaffolding generates an embedded .resx that still has your old schema name (DefaultSchema), and a snapshot (Target) that is referenced in the designer code. Just changing the DefaultSchema didn't solve the issue for me, but re-running the scaffolding did.
I also added Table annotations to my models, but I don't think that was the issue. And probably isn't ideal if your service is already live.

C# creating a database programmatically with SMO

I am trying to create a database, but once created, I cannot connect to it.
The server is Microsoft SQL Server 2008 and using .Net 4.5. We're creating the database with SMO, but we're usually using Dapper to connect and query the database.
This is the code I have so far, which works :
System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection con = new System.Data.SqlClient.SqlConnection(connectionString);
Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server srv = new Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server(new Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Common.ServerConnection(con));
var database = new Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Database(srv, dbName);
database.Create(false);
database.Roles["db_datareader"].AddMember(???);
database.Roles["db_datawriter"].AddMember(???);
database.Roles["db_backupoperator"].AddMember(???);
srv.Refresh();
Noce the ??? ? I have tried
System.Environment.UserDomainName + "\\" + System.Environment.UserName
and
System.Environment.UserName
but it fails (update) with the error Add member failed for DatabaseRole 'db_datareader'. with both values.
The problem is that when I create the database, I cannot coonect to it for some reason (using Dapper), from the same program. (update) I get the error message : Cannot open database \"<database_name>\" requested by the login. The login failed.\r\nLogin failed for user '<domain>\\<username>' (where <database_name> is the database name, <domain> my logon domain, and <username> my Windows logon).
Am I missing something? Am I doing th right thing? I've tried searching the web, but it seems no one creates database this way. The methods are there, it should work, no?
** Update **
If I comment the database.Roles["..."].AddMember(...) lines, and I add a break point at srv.Refresh(), resuming the program from there solves everything.
Why a break point solves everything? I can't just break the program in production... nor break the program when creating the database everytime.

It sounds like the Dapper connection issue is a problem with SQL Server doing some of the SMO operations asynchronously. In all likelihood, the new Database is not ready for other users/connections immediately, but requires some small time for SQL Server to prepare it. In "human-time" (in SSMS, or a Breakpoint) this isn't noticeable, but "program-time" it too fast, so you probably need to give it a pause.
This may also be the problem with the Role's AddMember, but there a a number of things that could be wrong here, and we do not have enough information to tell. (specifically, does AddMember work later on? and are the strings being passed correct or not?)

This is happening because you've created the user, but no login for that user. Though I don't know the exact syntax, you're going to have to create a Login. You'll want to set its LoginType to LoginType.WindowsUser. Further, you'll likely need to set the WindowsLoginAccessType to WindowsLoginAccessType.Grant and you'll need to set the Credential by building one, probably a NetworkCredential with the user name you want.
To put a visual on this, the Login is under the Security node for the Server in Management Studio whereas the User is under the Security node for the Database. Both need to exist for access to the SQL Server.

Error connecting to Oracle from Visual Studio

I am not able to connect to Oracle using connection string and the correct password. I've tried the same parameters in SQL developer and sqlplus(commandline) and they are working. I even tried changing the password but no use.
Any ideas what might be wrong or where should I start looking?
The exact Oracle error is :
invalid username/password password, logon denied
and after trying a few times account is getting locked with
the account is locked

When I've run into this, it has ALWAYS been an issue with my connect string.
What is your connect string? It should be something like "User Id=[ID]; Password=[PWD]; Data Source=[DB]"
Of course, you'd replace [ID], [PWD] and [DB] as appropriate.

Is it just your computer that exhibits the problem, or are others seeing it as well?
Can you test your connection in the ODBC Data Source Administrator? Does that work?

Try to install the Oracle Developer Tools for Visual Studio. It's free but you need to register, also free.

You need to unlock the account.
(From above referenced site)
SQL> ALTER USER username ACCOUNT LOCK;
SQL> ALTER USER username ACCOUNT UNLOCK;

Actually the problem was with cache on the computer. Even though I am giving "server='correctdb'" visual studio was taking "server='olddb'" as input and hence I am not able to connect. Pathetic but that's what happened.