I migrated more than 200 databases from one SQL server to a new SQL server. I also transferred logins,jobs,linked servers etc.
I used the official method ( using sp_help_revlogin ) for transferring logins. Apparently , this procedure doesn't take care of Default_language of logins. So all logins were created with default language as 'us_english'. As a result, many users started experiencing date related issues on the new server.
For e.g. : For ‘French’ default language , the first day of the week is ‘Monday’ whereas for logins using ‘us_english’ , the first day of week is ‘Sunday’
A lot of application connect to this server and it would be the last option to contact each application owner for default_language details.
The situation we have is that the old server can not be bought online and its data disks etc. are also not available. I do have backup of master database on tape (Backup solution used : Litespeed to TSM). I restored the master on another server with a different name but (as expected) couldn't get the details of sys.server_principals for getting the required info.
Is there any way to get this info from master backup without using it to rebuild master of a SQL server Instance?
Version: SQL Server 2005
Let me know if more info is required.
Thanks and Regards, Tarun Kumar Jaiswal