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SA permissions issues with many nested objects

I have a broker application that's relatively complicated. Today, after I made some changes, I started getting the error: The server principal 'sa' is not able to access the database 'XYZ' under ...
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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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Giving permission for each table within a database

I want to give different permission for different tables within a single database for a user.For example a user has full permission to a table while for another table only read permission.How it can ...
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SSRS appears to be ignoring Permissions set using Report Manager

I have setup SSRS on SQL Server 2008 in native mode. As an administrator I can login to report manager, upload reports and run them, and also use the Web Service URL to generate reports. I have also ...
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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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Error Authenticating Proxy Account when Executing SSIS job

I have a SQL Server instance that runs 5 scheduled tasks each night, each of which run SSIS packages. These packages have been running for years and the associated steps run via a Proxy Account ...
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MySQL Permissions Necessary To Reset Password

On my team there is a desire for some users to periodically update their MySQL password. Our MySQL server is shared between a few projects (and certain users are assigned to certain projects). If I'm ...
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How to troubleshoot/debug Oracle permission problems

An application is connecting to Oracle to do stuff. It's not working but I don't get any ORA errors in the application itself. I'm thinking its a permission problem. So my question is what is the best ...
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How do I find out *why* a user has certain effective permissions?

I know that I can query effective permissions by using sys.fn_my_permissions: USE myDatabase; SELECT * FROM fn_my_permissions('dbo.myTable', 'OBJECT') entity_name | subentity_name | ...
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unreachable SQL Server for a group of computers

I'm deploying SQL Server 2008 Express in my company. I already installed, did a application, tested, gave permission to user. All desktop users run the program without any problem. But the notebook ...
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What are the security implications of sp_executesql?

By default, in SQL Server, the [public] role has EXECUTE rights on sp_executesql. However, I've inherited a database server where the previous DBA has revoked the EXECUTE right on sp_executesql. As ...
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CREATE DATABASE Permission denied in database 'master' error

I'm working with a tool that as one of the automated steps will attach databases from my file system to my local SQL Express 2008 instance. The tool requires a login in the sysadmin server role, for ...
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SQL 2005 Permission Precedence

Very simple question - I have two database roles (Basic, Admin). Say I explicitly deny the Basic role from deleting from table A and grant that to the Admin role. If I am a user who is in both ...
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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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SQL Server Permission Denied Error When I'm DBOwner?

So I created an account, gave him dbcreator and securityadmin privileges and then through that account tried to run CREATE TABLE on a database that I had created and now owned, but was getting a ...