If you are installing a new SQL Server and would like to transfer the logins from an old SQL Server, without doing a SQL restore, then you can do it with a script.

Take a look on this article How to transfer logins and passwords between instances of SQL Server; here Microsoft describes how to do it.

Basically it is a 2 part step. First you export the current user informations from the old server and then afterwards you run a create script on the new server. The detailed scripts can be found in the article from Microsoft

Example a script that is starting with doing a reindex and the continues with indexdefrag.

CREATE   proc DB_Maint AS
 
set nocount on
 
DBCC DBReIndex ([$Post Code], [$1])
DBCC DBReIndex ([$Customer], [$1])
commit
 
RAISERROR ('Reindex done', 16, 1 ) with log, nowait
 
DBCC IndexDefrag (0, [$Customer], [$Customer$0])
DBCC IndexDefrag (0, [$Customer],  [$1])
DBCC IndexDefrag (0, [$Customer],  [$2])
 
commit
RAISERROR ('IndexDefrag Customer done', 16, 1 ) with log, nowait
 
commit
RAISERROR ('IndexDefrag Basis done', 16, 1 ) with log, nowait
 
GO

With the use of the RAISERROR command I am getting some log entries, and thereby I can always see how far the script is in its execution.

ALTER INDEX

Modifies an existing table or view index (relational or XML) by disabling, rebuilding, or reorganizing the index; or by setting options on the index.

DBCC DBREINDEX

Rebuilds one or more indexes for a table in the specified database.

This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. Use ALTER INDEX instead.

DBCC INDEXDEFRAG

Defragments indexes of the specified table or view.This feature will be removed in a future version of Microsoft SQL Server. Avoid using this feature in new development work, and plan to modify applications that currently use this feature. Use ALTER INDEX instead.

DBCC SHOWCONTIG

Displays defragmentation information for data and indexes of a specified table.

DBCC SHRINKDATABASE

Shrinks the size of the data and log files in the specified database.

DBCC SHRINKFILE

Shrinks the size of the specified data or log file for the current database or empties a file by moving the data from the specified file to other files in the same filegroup, allowing the file to be removed from the database.

KILL

Terminates a user proces. It uses the spid as an identifier, and can therefore with benifit be used in combination with sp_who2.Notice – if the specified session ID has a lot of work to undo, the KILL statement may take some time to complete, particularly when it involves rolling back a long transaction.

SP_LOCK

Displays active locks.

SP_SPACEUSED

Displays the number of rows, disk space reserved, and disk space used by a table, indexed view, or SQL Server 2005 Service Broker queue in the current database, or displays the disk space reserved and used by the whole database.

SP_WHO

Displays information about current users and processes.

SP_WHO2

Displays information about current users and processes. It is a function similar to sp_who. The big difference is that it also displays CPU usages and DiskIO. So if possible, always use this command.