SQL Server Management Studio allows you to view effective permissions on an object, but it’s limited in a few important respects. To work around some of those limitations, I’ve built a stored procedure to display all the defined and effective permissions across an entire SQL Server database.
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The SQL Server security model, part 3: permissions
This is the third installment in a series on assigning SQL Server permissions. In the previous posts, we’ve looked at security principals (the users and groups that carry the permissions) as well as the securables (the objects you want to control access to). Building on this understanding, we’re getting ready to look at the fabric that connects principals with securables: Permissions.