Why can't the schema owner create a new table?

Question

I have a DB user called STANMAN which owns the STANMAN schema. When I try to create a table as STANMAN, it says STANMAN has insufficient privileges. How could a schema-owner not already have sufficient privileges? Naturally, when I try to GRANT ALTER or GRANT CREATE, I get "Cannot grant, deny, or revoke permissions to sa, dbo, entity owner, information_schema, sys, or yourself." What am I doing wrong?

Answer 1

If you are using SQL Server 2005 or later then to create an table in a schema you need both CREATE TABLE at the database level and ALTER at the schema level. Ownership of a schema covers the ALTER permission requirement but not the CREATE TABLE one.

CREATE TABLE is also granted by membership in the db_ddladmin fixed database role. This role is for backwards compatibility - do not use it for new security implementations.