Grant execute permission for a user on all stored procedures in database?

Question

I generated script from old database, created a new database and imported all data from old database. So far so good, however, no user has execute rights for stored procedur

Answer 1

Create a role add this role to users, and then you can grant execute to all the routines in one shot to this role.

CREATE ROLE 
GRANT EXECUTE TO 

EDIT
This works in SQL Server 2005, I'm not sure about backward compatibility of this feature, I'm sure anything later than 2005 should be fine.