I’m a developer, not a DBA (which is showing, I’m afraid). I am trying to run Report Builder 3.0 with SQL Server 2014 Express on my home computer (named John-PC
) and cannot run my reports.
I accidentally created a user/login combo of user = John-PC
and login = John-PC\John
. When I try to delete the entry with:
Drop Login John-PC\John
I get an error:
Incorrect syntax near '-'.
I think the problem is the hyphen in my computer's name.
- Is there a way to get around the syntax error?
- Is there another way to change or drop the user (I tried dropping from
sys.server_principals
but received an error that I couldn’t make ad hoc changes). - Can I give Report Builder a new user/login name somehow?
- If none of the above, can I change the name of my computer to
John_PC
or will that create a host of other problems that I can’t even imagine?
Best Answer
When you have special characters in a name put []'s around it to let SQL know that it's an identifier. This is also how you manage special characters.
So in your case