CREATE TABLE permission denied in database 'master' on Amazon AWS RDS

Question

I followed the instructions on AWS to set up an RDS instance with SQL server Express,

http://docs.aws.amazon.com/elasticbeanstalk/latest/dg/create_deploy_NET.quickstart.html

But I find that when I go to run the commane 'Update-Database' that I get:

CREATE TABLE permission denied in database 'master'.

Turns out I'm logged in as 'Guest'??? Despite setting up the db as per instructions.

So I'm expecting that I must have missed something simple, just looking for any hints as to how to get admin access to my own SQL Server hosted on RDS?

Answer 1

The master database is a System database internal to SQL Server. You never need to run CREATE TABLE inside that database. It sounds like you're not in the right database context: you're running commands against that database rather than your own database.