Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed

Using SSMS to Manage Permissions at the Database Level

The same type of hierarchy exists with permissions at the database level as at the server level. You can apply permissions at a high level to affect many objects of a particular type, or you can apply them on a specific object. You can also manage the permissions at the database level on a specific database user, or you can manage them on the database across many users.

To demonstrate the differences between object types available at the database level, let’s first look at managing permissions for a specific database user. As with logins, you can right-click a database user and select Properties. On the Properties window that appears, you select the Securables page, and you get a screen to ...