Sql-server – Bulk grant execute permissions for scalar functions & stored procedures

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We have a situation where we have restored a large number (50+) of MSSQL2008 databases from backup and most if not all of them require that a user is granted EXECUTE permissions on scalar functions and stored procedures in the dbo schema.

I've seen bits of documentation with T-SQL queries to grant execute permissions on single stored procedures or scalar functions, but I need to do this for multiple DBs and multiple stored procedures.

Unfortunately, my experience with MSSQL is limited so I have no idea where to begin with this.

Any help would be awesome.

Best Answer

This bit of nested dynamic SQL grants exec or select on all the various procedure and function types, that were not shipped by MS, and that exist in any database outside of master, msdb, tempdb and model. It is certainly not easy on the eyes, tedious to reverse engineer, and I haven't thoroughly tested it, but hopefully if you work through it you can figure out what I've done. ALl you really need to specify is the name of the login you want to grant the rights to - of course this assumes that the login has been mapped to a database user with the same name in each database. That was a layer of complexity I wasn't prepared to add, sorry. :-)

DECLARE 
  @principal SYSNAME = N'some_server_principal';


DECLARE 
  @sql1 NVARCHAR(MAX) = N'', 
  @sql2 NVARCHAR(MAX) = N'',
  @sql3 NVARCHAR(MAX) = N'';

SELECT @sql1 += N'
SELECT @sql += N''SELECT @sql += N''''
USE ' + QUOTENAME(name) + ';
GRANT '''' 
  + CASE WHEN type IN (''''P'''',''''PC'''') THEN ''''EXEC'''' ELSE ''''SELECT'''' END 
  + '''' ON '''' + QUOTENAME(SCHEMA_NAME(schema_id)) + ''''.'''' + QUOTENAME(name) 
  + '''' TO ' + QUOTENAME(@principal) + ';'''' FROM ' + QUOTENAME(name) + '.sys.objects
  WHERE is_ms_shipped = 0 AND type IN (''''P'''',''''PC'''',
    ''''FN'''',''''AF'''',''''FN'''',''''TF'''',''''IF'''');'';'
  FROM sys.databases
  WHERE database_id > 4;

EXEC sp_executesql @sql1, N'@sql NVARCHAR(MAX) OUTPUT', @sql = @sql2 OUTPUT;

EXEC sp_executesql @sql2, N'@sql NVARCHAR(MAX) OUTPUT', @sql = @sql3 OUTPUT;

-- you won't be able to validate all of this, since Management Studio will
-- truncate the output quietly. But you should get a good sense of what the
-- end result will be:

SELECT @sql3;

-- When you are happy with the above, uncomment this:

-- EXEC sp_executesql @sql3;

This is kind of like Inception. In order to generate the right output, you have to figure out which layer every element is on. This is why the initial string is so ugly, and littered with escaped apostrophes in sets of 2 and 4. It can be a little unnerving at first, but you can become adept very quickly at writing dynamic SQL for metadata purposes.

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