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 Posted by Erland Sommarskog on 02/08/07 23:00 
akkha1234@gmail.com (akkha1234@gmail.com) writes: 
> When I click on the properties of a 2005 sql server database and then 
> permissions. 
> If I select a group and then effective permission, I got an error, 
> saying that "cannot execute as the principal server because the 'xxx 
> \group' does not exist, this type of principal cannot be impersonated, 
> or you do not have permission (Microsoft SQL Server; Error: 15406)" 
>  
> I guess the error is valid, since the group does not exist in the 
> database as a user. If so, how do I get the effective permissions of a 
> group? 
 
I would think the easiest would be to take a user which is a member of that 
group, but I was not able to get that to work. Or more precisely, I was 
not able to impersonate as such a user. 
 
You can always look directly into sys.database_permissions, but I don't 
really know this information is exposed. In SQL 2005 you can grant a 
principal a permission on a schema, which then applies to all objects 
in that schema. But I don't think there is a row for every object in 
the schema, but I have not investigated this. 
 
 
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Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, esquel@sommarskog.se 
 
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