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EXECUTE AS over Linked Servers

I have a front end that logs into the DB as "logInA", and only has permission to "schemaA" stored procs, which use EXECUTE AS "logInB", (I have also tried EXECUTE AS 'DBO'), to handle all the business ...
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SQL 2008: Why is *any* user, with minimal permissions able to restart/stop the SQL instance through Management Studio

So I'm on a project that I need to help admin SQL 2008 . I'm coming from a MySQL background. Why is it that a basic user, with the most basic/default permissions, through Management Studio is able to ...
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How to refresh AD security group on Sql Server permissions

I am using Sql Server 2008 on Small Business Server 2003; client is using WinXP. I added a user to my Active Directory Security Group; Why can't this user immediately access the database? It seems ...
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Does this mean the 'public' has full select, insert, update, and delete access?

I'm trying to create a new DB user in SQL Server 2008 R2 that can only select from one SQL View. But no matter what I try when I login as this new user I can select from any table. I ran this query: ...
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SQL Server Security Hierarchy

I have been working as a developer with SQL Server for years without asking the question, "what is dbo", a shame. Recently I have been studying the security model of SQL Server 2008. I have been ...
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Identify why a user can drop a database

I have a sql server user that has the ability to drop any database. I've been running the code below to check the rights that the user has in SQL Server but have not been able to identify how the user ...
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Managing Access for DBA and IT Support

We are currently in the process of moving our development, test and live databases on to separate servers and instances and I am looking at how best to manage access for DBA tasks and also IT Support ...
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Users cannot view tables in non-default schema in SSMS

I'm having an issue setting the VIEW DEFINITION permission appropriately at the schema level for one of my users. I've created the schema TestSchema and added some tables. The user currently has ...
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One database with two schemas: cross-schema View permissions issue?

I have a database on SQL Server 2008 R2 that has two schemas, the default dbo and a new one called Test. I have a view in the Test schema called View1 that selects from dbo.Table1. Both schemas are ...
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Whitelist-based SQL Server schema setup

My group has access to a single database on a SQL Server instance. We have a number of different people in our group, each working on separate projects. In trying to determine how to segregate ...
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Select permission inside stored procedure?

I have granted a user execute permission for a stored procedure through SSMS, but when he tries to execute it, he gets the error: The SELECT permission was denied on the object '[table name]', ...
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DENY EXECUTE on one schema object hides other objects in same schema

I have five stored procedures in a schema [XTR], the users are all in one AD group [AD\Users] and have db_datareader and public assigned to them. On one of the stored procedures I don't want to give ...
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Is there a way to DENY CRUD operations on connections from linked server?

I have a SQL Server instance, RPT1 (2008 R2), that was set up for "power users" to run their own queries. This server is linked to our production reporting server, PRD1 (SQL Server 2008 instance), ...
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Granting Execute Permissions on Stored Procedures, Functions and Views

I am using a user which has read permission only. It basically has permission to Connect Execute However, it does not have execute permissions on Functions and Stored Procedures. In part of my ...
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Executing a stored procedure on remote database

I have 2 databases on the same server. DB-A and DB-B. DB-B has a user that has read and write access to database B. I would like to grant the user in DB-B execute permissions to 2 stored procedures in ...
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Maintaining or Re-Gaining access after SQL Server database restore without SYSADMIN rights?

I am struggling with maintaining or re-gaining access after restoring an SQL Server database (2008 R2, if that makes any difference). Here is what I am trying: SQLServer login APPUSER is member of ...
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Giving selective permissions in a database

I have a user [AD\dbusersgroup_limitedrights] that should have on two schema's [ICD] and [XCD] within a database only SELECT and EXECUTE rights, however for each of the users in the ...
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Role db_ddladmin not working properly on SQL Server 2008

I want to allow certain user to create/modify objects on a database(tables, views, sp's, functions, schemas etc) and don't want to give db_owner. I thought I could do it with the db_ddladmin role, ...
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select permission was denied on the object 'sysjobs'

The select permission was denied on the object 'sysjobs', database 'msdb', schema 'dbo'. I have already tried to grant sqlagentoperatorrole and it didn't work. How do I resolve this error?
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User Permissions Messed Up following a Backup -> Restore Operation

I had to move several SQL Server 2008 databases to our new db server so I backed them all up (to .bak files), copied these files over to the new box and restored them (all done using SQL Management ...
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Permissions Dropped after Package Failed

I created a local db and then set up a one-off job to copy the live db to this new db. Or at least that's what I thought I'd done. The logs suggest that the job thought it had to create the db on live ...