Adding users from cursor

Hi. Perhaps I am missing something obvious, but I am confused. I can
add a SQL Server 2005 user with this command:
CREATE LOGIN 'AUser' WITH PASSWORD = 'hello', DEFAULT_DATABASE = TEST1
However, I have 100 users to add, and I want to use TRANSACT-SQL to
create the users automatically and pull their initial password info
from a table. I use a cursor to do this, replacing the 'AUser' and
'hello' with variables, for example:
CREATE LOGIN @.usr WITH PASSWORD = @.pwd
I get an Incorrect syntax near '@.usr' error. Somehow this is not the
correct datatype, I would imagine. I used this method with sp_addlogin
in SQL 2000 without a problem.
I've tried declaring @.usr as a varchar or nvarchar without success.
Please offer any suggestions.
Thank you.
Excellent idea. I was hung up on trying to get it to accept the
variable.
Tibor Karaszi wrote:
> Seems CREATE LOGIN doesn't accept a variable for one of both those parameters. You can build the
> CREATE LOGIN command in a variable and then use dynamic SQL to execute it:
> EXEC(@.sql)
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> Tibor Karaszi, SQL Server MVP
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