Alter View permission?

MSDN says the following at
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rl=/library/en-
us/tsqlref/ts_aa-az_2gtz.asp:
"ALTER VIEW permissions default to members of the db_owner and
db_ddladmin fixed database roles, and to the view owner. These
permissions are not transferable.
To alter a view, the user must have ALTER VIEW permission along with
SELECT permission on the tables, views, and table-valued functions being
referenced in the view, ..."
The BOL documentation for GRANT doesn't show ALTER VIEW as a permissible
statement type to grant permissions on. Trying to GRANT ALTER VIEW
doesn't work. How can I give a user ALTER VIEW permission? Does "not
transferable" mean I can't?
Thanks.
David WalkerYou can add the user to the db_owner or db_ddladmin fixed database roles.
AMB
"DWalker" wrote:

> MSDN says the following at
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...rl=/library/en-
> us/tsqlref/ts_aa-az_2gtz.asp:
> "ALTER VIEW permissions default to members of the db_owner and
> db_ddladmin fixed database roles, and to the view owner. These
> permissions are not transferable.
> To alter a view, the user must have ALTER VIEW permission along with
> SELECT permission on the tables, views, and table-valued functions being
> referenced in the view, ..."
> The BOL documentation for GRANT doesn't show ALTER VIEW as a permissible
> statement type to grant permissions on. Trying to GRANT ALTER VIEW
> doesn't work. How can I give a user ALTER VIEW permission? Does "not
> transferable" mean I can't?
> Thanks.
> David Walker
>|||I ran across the DDLAdmin role, but BOL makes it sound like you can
grant ALTER VIEW permissions. Maybe I'm misreading it -- I suppose
those permissions are only given to members of db_owner and db_ddladmin,
and they can't be granted to anyone else.
The phrase "ALTER VIEW permissions default to members of the db_owner
and db_ddladmin fixed database roles" should have "default to" replaced
by "are restricted to" if that's the case.
It would be nice to be able to grant ALTER VIEW permission on one view
to one user or role.
Thanks, AlejandroMesa.
David Walker
"examnotes"
<AlejandroMesa@.discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in
news:668F79B3-3335-4BC3-860F-67F467C12CEF@.microsoft.com:

> You can add the user to the db_owner or db_ddladmin fixed database
> roles.
>
> AMB
> "DWalker" wrote:
>
>|||You cannot give a user (that is not member of db_owner and db_ddladmin
fixed dabase roles) the permission to alter a specific view (that he
does not own). This is exactly what "not transferable" means (at least,
this is what it means to me).
As I see it, you have the following alternatives:
a) make the user a member of db_ddladmin role: this will enable him to
make any modification to the objects in the database, including
creating and deleting other objects (tables, views, procedures, etc)
b) grant the user the "CREATE VIEW" permission; the views that are
created by him will be will be owned by him, and so he will be able to
modify them
c) create the views in his name, by prefixing them with his user name
instead of "dbo" (without granting him the "CREATE VIEW" permission).
He will be able to modify those views (and to delete them), but he
won't be able to create new views (or other objects).
The problem with the b) and c) alternatives is that only that user will
be able to access those views by specifying only the view's name (the
other users must prefix the view's name with the user name).
Razvan|||It would be NICE if I could grant a user permission to alter a specific
view, but we'll take what we can get...
I'll probably add the user to the ddladmin role, although that's more
power than I would like to give. But the other choices aren't great
either. Thanks.
David
"Razvan Socol" <rsocol@.gmail.com> wrote in
news:1112639463.986674.297650@.f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com:

> You cannot give a user (that is not member of db_owner and db_ddladmin
> fixed dabase roles) the permission to alter a specific view (that he
> does not own). This is exactly what "not transferable" means (at
> least, this is what it means to me).
> As I see it, you have the following alternatives:
> a) make the user a member of db_ddladmin role: this will enable him to
> make any modification to the objects in the database, including
> creating and deleting other objects (tables, views, procedures, etc)
> b) grant the user the "CREATE VIEW" permission; the views that are
> created by him will be will be owned by him, and so he will be able to
> modify them
> c) create the views in his name, by prefixing them with his user name
> instead of "dbo" (without granting him the "CREATE VIEW" permission).
> He will be able to modify those views (and to delete them), but he
> won't be able to create new views (or other objects).
> The problem with the b) and c) alternatives is that only that user
> will be able to access those views by specifying only the view's name
> (the other users must prefix the view's name with the user name).
> Razvan
>