Scripting SQL Server permissions

Question

I want to copy all the permission I\'ve set on stored procedures and other stuff from my development database to my production database. It\'s incredibly cumbersome, not to ment

Answer 1

SELECT
    dp.state_desc + ' ' 
       + dp.permission_name collate latin1_general_cs_as
       + ISNULL((' ON ' + QUOTENAME(s.name) + '.' + QUOTENAME(o.name)),'')
       + ' TO ' + QUOTENAME(dpr.name)
FROM sys.database_permissions AS dp
  LEFT JOIN sys.objects AS o ON dp.major_id=o.object_id
  LEFT JOIN sys.schemas AS s ON o.schema_id = s.schema_id
  LEFT JOIN sys.database_principals AS dpr ON dp.grantee_principal_id=dpr.principal_id
WHERE dpr.name NOT IN ('public','guest')

Slight change of the accepted answer if you want to grab permissions that are applied at database level in addition to object level. Basically switch to LEFT JOIN and make sure to handle NULL for object and schema names.