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
[sourcecode language="sql"]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
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