Questions about Database roles

Hi,
Need to setup a new (Windows) user which has varied access to tables, views and procedures in about 8 different schemas all in the same database.
I've created a instance level login and then gone to the database to set the more granular details.
First question. Does this user need to own the schemas they will access?
Secondly, I'm assumign the best bet would be to create a database role and then apply the privs against that?
I need to give access to all stored procedures (and future procedures) in a couple of these schemas and none in the others. Is it possible to grant execute on all procedures in a schema whist prohibiting others?
Then I would assign the database role to the new instance login?
Thanks

In the database he has access to a number of schemas but I wish to explicitly exclude him from all views in those schemas and in addition to this all the sys catalogs, e.g
Also have no idea how to restrict access to the user created views without doing them all manually, but then what happens in the future if new views are added? They are not going to be explicitly denied.
David nailed the problem.
There is no way to differentiate SELECT permission between Tables and Views. If they are all in the same schema and tables are allowed and views not.. out of luck and have to include the allowed object one by one (as opposed to denying the not allowed ones
with the risk of missing some in the future)
This is why database design should have security in mind from the very beginning and views, being a way to access (aka "access-schema") data in tables should ideally be placed in a separate schemas
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Hi Claudia,
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IVYY wrote:
But I still have a last question.
Now I have my Title, Price, Full Name, Email textfields all auto filled by session variables, I also have a no. of orders for the users to enter and press submit. So I only have Title, price, full name, email and no. of orders textfield in my reservation page.
My third table intends to have these attributes: Reservation Numner, Title, Price, Full Name, Email, and Date of Collection. My reservation page doesnt have the reservation and date of collection textfields. I intend to pull out these 2 data after the user press submit.
May I know what is my primary key for now? Do I use update or insert record? Correct my attributes or textfields if I am wrong. How do I go about doing this now?
I'm not quite following;
So now you have Title, Price, Full Name and Email values which you can get from the Reservations page form. What are you intending to do with it? Insert that into a table in your database?
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<?php
$collectionDate = date('d-m-Y', strtotime("+5 days"));
?>
Just add value="<?php echo $collectionDate; ?>" to the hidden form field.

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I guess it comes down to really not understanding
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I want to create, display, and maintain a data table of loan
rates. These
rates will be for two loan categories - Conforming and Jumbo.
They will be
for two loan terms - 15year and 30year. Within each term,
there will be a
display of -
points (0, 1, 3) - rate - APR
For example -
CONFORMING
30 year
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0 6.375 6.6
1 6.125 6.24
3 6.0 6.12
My first question is -
Would it be better to set up the database with 5 fields
(category, term,
points, rate, apr), or 13 fields (category, 30_zeropointRate,
30_onepointRate, 30_threepointRate, 30_zeropointAPR,
30_onepointAPR,
30_threepointAPR, 15_zeropointRate, 15_onepointRate,
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regard.
Any thoughts, suggestions, recommendations?
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Thanks, Pat. I'm pretty sure that this is a dead-end
expansion. The site
itself will surely expand, but I think this particular need
will be
informational only....
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"Pat Shaw" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> But if the site ever wants to expand on it's
functionality etc. it can be
> very difficult to get round a de-normalised database.
You can find that
> you have tied yourself in knots and the only solution is
to go back and
> redesign the database which often includes major
redesigning of the
> fron-end too.
>
> If you are confident that this will not be the case then
go with your
> initial thoughts but don't be too lenient just in case.
Leave yorself a
> little scope. I always aim for 3rd normal form as this
guarantees a robust
> database design without being OTT.
>
> Pat.
>
>
> "Joris van Lier" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
> news:[email protected]...
>>
>>
>> "Murray *ACE*"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>> news:[email protected]...
>>> I want to create, display, and maintain a data
table of loan rates.
>>> These rates will be for two loan categories -
Conforming and Jumbo.
>>> They will be for two loan terms - 15year and
30year. Within each term,
>>> there will be a display of -
>>>
>>> points (0, 1, 3) - rate - APR
>>>
>>> For example -
>>>
>>> CONFORMING
>>> 30 year
>>> POINTS RATE APR
>>> ----------- --------- ------
>>> 0 6.375 6.6
>>> 1 6.125 6.24
>>> 3 6.0 6.12
>>>
>>> My first question is -
>>>
>>> Would it be better to set up the database with 5
fields (category, term,
>>> points, rate, apr), or 13 fields (category,
30_zeropointRate,
>>> 30_onepointRate, 30_threepointRate,
30_zeropointAPR, 30_onepointAPR,
>>> 30_threepointAPR, 15_zeropointRate,
15_onepointRate, 15_threepointRate,
>>> 15_zeropointAPR, 15_onepointAPR,
15_threepointAPR)?
>>>
>>> The latter option would mean that my table would
only contain two
>>> records - one for each of the two categories. It
seems simpler to
>>> manage in that regard.
>>>
>>> Any thoughts, suggestions, recommendations?
>>
>> In my opinion, normalizing is not necessary with
small sites, for example
>> the uber-normalized database design I did for the
telcost compare matrix
>> (
http://www.artronics.nl/telcostmatrix/matrix.php
) proved to be totally
>> overkill.
>>
>> Joris
>
>

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