What is the difference between login and a user?

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What is the difference between login and a user?..

Answer / prasad

Login is for Entire SQL server Instance,
User is for particular database.

1 login=many users.

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What is the difference between login and a user?..

Answer / infodba

Login is a server principle and User is a database principle

Each server principle can be a guest user as a public role for each database can view any database.

But a contained user of a database cannot access other databases and cannot be a guest login for the server.

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What is the difference between login and a user?..

Answer / revathi

used for protection login
user is a customer.just view cannot alter

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