I need to make a script to copy one particular database role from one SQL server to another.
Is there an easy way to generate a script that creates the role and all the
I expanded on Mario Eis's answer:
SELECT 'GRANT ' + database_permissions.permission_name + ' ON ' + CASE database_permissions.class_desc
WHEN 'SCHEMA'
THEN '[' + schema_name(major_id) + ']'
WHEN 'OBJECT_OR_COLUMN'
THEN CASE
WHEN minor_id = 0
THEN'['+OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME(major_id) + '].' + '[' + object_name(major_id) + ']' COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS
ELSE (
SELECT object_name(object_id) + ' (' + NAME + ')'
FROM sys.columns
WHERE object_id = database_permissions.major_id
AND column_id = database_permissions.minor_id
)
END
ELSE 'other'
END + ' TO [' + database_principals.NAME + ']' COLLATE Latin1_General_CI_AS_KS_WS
FROM sys.database_permissions
JOIN sys.database_principals ON database_permissions.grantee_principal_id = database_principals.principal_id
LEFT JOIN sys.objects --left because it is possible that it is a schema
ON objects.object_id = database_permissions.major_id
WHERE database_permissions.major_id > 0
AND permission_name IN (
'SELECT'
,'INSERT'
,'UPDATE'
,'DELETE'
,'EXECUTE'
)