The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object 'xxxxxxx', database 'zzzzzzz', schema 'dbo'

Question

I\'m having problems executing a function.

Here\'s what I did:

1. Create a function using SQL Server Management Studio. It was successfully created.

Answer 1

The general answer is to grant execute permission as explained above. But that doesn't work if the schema owner of SP is different to underlying objects.

Check schema owners by:

select name, USER_NAME(s.principal_id) AS Schema_Owner from sys.schemas s

To change the owner of an schema you can:

ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON SCHEMA::YOUR_SCHEMA TO YOUR_USER;

Examples:

ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON SCHEMA::Claim TO dbo
ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON SCHEMA::datix TO user1;

Finally if within your SP you are truncating a table or changing structure you may want to add WITH EXECUTE AS OWNER in your SP:

ALTER procedure [myProcedure] 
WITH EXECUTE AS OWNER

as

truncate table etl.temp