While Query the FIM Service Database at the SQL layer is not supported by Microsoft I had an issue the other day where I couldn’t find what object had a conflicting SID that was preventing the update of another user. I could see in the error detail that it referenced the ObjectSID attribute. So I created this script and replaced the binary value down below with the SID of the object I was looking for.
Searching an entire database for a Guid or Unique Identifier can be a bit of a tricky proposition. However a little bit of using T-SQL to generate T-SQL and viola
DECLARE @GUIDHunted nvarchar(60)
SET @GUIDHunted = ‘0A24EC0C-65EE-4519-89DF-ABD3DD24F7EF’
SELECT *, ‘UNION ALL SELECT ’’’ + s.name + ‘.’ + ao.name + ‘’’, count(*) FROM ’
+ s.name +’.[’ + ao.name + ‘] WHERE ’ + ac.name + ’ = ’’’ + @GuidHunted + ’’’’
FROM sys.all_columns ac
JOIN sys.all_objects ao
ON ac.[object_id] = ao.[object_id]
JOIN sys.schemas s
ON ao.[schema_id] = s.[schema_id]
where user_type_id = 36 – UniqueIdentifier
and s.name != ‘sys’
