New user cannot login to SQL Azure

Question

I am creating a new read/write user on SQL Azure as follows:

-- Connected to master
create login [fred] with password = \'xxx\';

-- Connected to my DB
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Answer 1

For me, the issue was that the person who created the user on the database did so without specifying FROM LOGIN, therefore the user was available in the Security->Users tab, but login was still not possible. I had to recreate the user and linking it to the login with the same name on the database:

DROP USER [myuser]
GO

CREATE USER [myuser] FROM LOGIN [myuser] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA=[dbo]
GO

and then granting the correct permissions on the database, in my case:

ALTER ROLE db_datareader ADD MEMBER [myuser]
ALTER ROLE db_datawriter ADD MEMBER [myuser]