This is more of a note for myself but it’s handy little snippet for future reference to change the owner of objects in a MS SQL Server database. This is particularly handy when objects have been created by web applications and not set the object owner to dbo.

To view th source code for the stored procedure

if exists (select * from sysobjects where id = object_id(N'[dbo].[chObjOwner]') and OBJECTPROPERTY(id, N'IsProcedure') = 1)

drop procedure [dbo].[chObjOwner]

GO

 

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER  OFF    SET ANSI_NULLS  ON 

GO

 

CREATE proc chObjOwner( @usrName varchar(20), @newUsrName varchar(50))

as

-- @usrName is the current user

-- @newUsrName is the new user

 

set nocount on

declare @uid int                   -- UID of the user

declare @objName varchar(50)       -- Object name owned by user

declare @currObjName varchar(50)   -- Checks for existing object owned by new user 

declare @outStr varchar(256)       -- SQL command with 'sp_changeobjectowner'

set @uid = user_id(@usrName)

 

declare chObjOwnerCur cursor static

for

select name from sysobjects where uid = @uid

 

open chObjOwnerCur

if @@cursor_rows = 0

begin

  print 'Error: No objects owned by ' + @usrName

  close chObjOwnerCur

  deallocate chObjOwnerCur

  return 1

end

 

fetch next from chObjOwnerCur into @objName

 

while @@fetch_status = 0

begin

  set @currObjName = @newUsrName + "." + @objName

  if (object_id(@currObjName) > 0)

    print 'WARNING *** ' + @currObjName + ' already exists ***'

  set @outStr = "sp_changeobjectowner '" + @usrName + "." + @objName + "','" + @newUsrName + "'"

  print @outStr

  print 'go'

  fetch next from chObjOwnerCur into @objName

end

 

close chObjOwnerCur

deallocate chObjOwnerCur

set nocount off

return 0

 

 

GO

SET QUOTED_IDENTIFIER  OFF    SET ANSI_NULLS  ON 

GO

Related posts:

1. Invalid object name ‘umbracoUser’ Yet another problem on an Umbraco v4.0 site I am...