Select permission mssqlsystemresource

Question

Hi
I have created a database named "xyz" and created a user in logins and in the database named "user1". i have made the user1 as db_owner to the data.
when i am installing the application i give the username user1 and password, but the application installation fails wih the following error.
The SELECT permission was denied on the object 'TABLES', database 'mssqlsystemresource', schema 'INFORMATION_SCHEMA'.
can any one please help to solve this issue.

Answer 1

Azmathulla,
Perhaps a modification of this might help.
Since there are so many possibilities for what might be wrong.  Here's another possibility to look at.  I ran into something where I had set up my own roles on a database.  (For instance, "Administrator", "Manager", "DataEntry", "Customer",
each with their own kinds of limitations)  The only ones who could use it were "Manager" role or above--because they were also set up as sysadmin because they were adding users to the database (and they were highly trusted).  Also, the users that
were being added were Windows Domain users--using their domain credentials.  (Everyone with access to the database had to be on our domain, but not everyone on the domain had access to the database--and only a few of them had access to change it.)
Anyway, this working system suddenly stopped working and I was getting error messages similar to the above.  What I ended up doing that solved it was to go through all the permissions for the "public" role in that database and add those permissions to
all of the roles that I had created.  I know that everyone is supposed to be in the "public" role even though you can't add them (or rather, you can "add" them, but they won't "stay added").
So, in "SQL Server Management Studio", I went into my application's database, in other words (my localized names are obscured within <> brackets): "<Computername> (SQL Server <version> - sa)"\Databases\<MyAppDB>\Security\Roles\Database
Roles\public".  Right-click on "public" and select "Properties".  In the "Database Role Properties - public" dialog, select the "Securables" page.  Go through the list and for each element in the list, come up with an SQL "Grant" statement to
grant exactly that permission to another role.  So, for instance, there is a scalar function "[dbo].[fn_diagramobjects]" on which the "public" role has "Execute" privilege.  So, I added the following line:
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[fn_diagramobjects] TO [' + @RoleName + '];' )
Once I had done this for all the elements in the "Securables" list, I wrapped that up in a while loop on a cursor selecting through all the roles in my roles table.  This explicitly granted all the permissions of the "public" role to my database roles. 
At that point, all my users were working again (even after I removed their "sysadmin" access--done as a temporary measure while I figured out what happened.)
I'm sure there's a better (more elegant) way to do this by doing some kind of a query on the database objects and selecting on the public role, but after about half and hour of investigating, I wasn't figuring it out, so I just did it the brute-force method. 
In case it helps someone else, here's my code.
CREATE PROCEDURE [dbo].[GrantAccess]
AS
DECLARE @AppRoleName AS sysname
DECLARE AppRoleCursor CURSOR LOCAL SCROLL_LOCKS FOR
SELECT AppRoleName FROM [dbo].[RoleList];
OPEN AppRoleCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM AppRoleCursor INTO @AppRoleName
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
BEGIN
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[fn_diagramobjects] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_alterdiagram] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_creatediagram] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_dropdiagram] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_helpdiagramdefinition] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_helpdiagrams] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT EXECUTE ON [dbo].[sp_renamediagram] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[all_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[all_objects] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[all_parameters] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[all_sql_modules] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[all_views] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[allocation_units] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[assemblies] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[assembly_files] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[assembly_modules] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[assembly_references] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[assembly_types] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[asymmetric_keys] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[certificates] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[change_tracking_tables] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[check_constraints] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[column_type_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[column_xml_schema_collection_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[computed_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[conversation_endpoints] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[conversation_groups] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[conversation_priorities] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[crypt_properties] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[data_spaces] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[database_audit_specification_details] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[database_audit_specifications] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[database_files] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[database_permissions] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[database_principal_aliases] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[database_principals] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[database_role_members] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[default_constraints] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[destination_data_spaces] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[event_notifications] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[events] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[extended_procedures] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[extended_properties] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[filegroups] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[foreign_key_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[foreign_keys] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[fulltext_catalogs] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[fulltext_index_catalog_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[fulltext_index_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[fulltext_index_fragments] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[fulltext_indexes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[fulltext_stoplists] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[fulltext_stopwords] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[function_order_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[identity_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[index_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[indexes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[internal_tables] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[key_constraints] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[key_encryptions] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[message_type_xml_schema_collection_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[module_assembly_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[numbered_procedure_parameters] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[numbered_procedures] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[objects] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[parameter_type_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[parameter_xml_schema_collection_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[parameters] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[partition_functions] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[partition_parameters] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[partition_range_values] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[partition_schemes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[partitions] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[plan_guides] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[procedures] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[remote_service_bindings] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[routes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[schemas] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[service_contract_message_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[service_contract_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[service_contracts] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[service_message_types] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[service_queue_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[service_queues] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[services] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[spatial_index_tessellations] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[spatial_indexes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sql_dependencies] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sql_modules] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[stats] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[stats_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[symmetric_keys] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[synonyms] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[syscolumns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[syscomments] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysconstraints] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysdepends] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysfilegroups] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysfiles] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysforeignkeys] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysfulltextcatalogs] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysindexes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysindexkeys] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysmembers] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysobjects] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[syspermissions] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysprotects] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysreferences] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[system_columns] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[system_objects] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[system_parameters] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[system_sql_modules] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[system_views] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[systypes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[sysusers] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[table_types] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[tables] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[transmission_queue] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[trigger_events] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[triggers] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[type_assembly_usages] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[types] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[views] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_indexes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_attributes] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_collections] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_component_placements] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_components] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_elements] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_facets] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_model_groups] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_namespaces] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_types] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_wildcard_namespaces] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
EXEC ( 'GRANT SELECT ON [sys].[xml_schema_wildcards] TO [' + @AppRoleName + '];' )
FETCH NEXT FROM AppRoleCursor INTO @AppRoleName
END
CLOSE AppRoleCursor
RETURN 0
GO
Once that is in the system, I just needed to "Exec GrantAccess" to make it work.  (Of course, I have a table [RoleList] which contains a "AppRoleName" field that contains the names of the database roles.)
So, the mystery remains: why did all my users lose their "public" role and why could I not give it back to them?  Was this part of an update to SQL Server 2008 R2?  Was it because I ran another script to delete each user and add them back so to refresh
their connection with the domain?  Well, this solves the issue for now.
One last warning: you probably should check the "public" role on your system before running this to make sure there isn't something missing or wrong, here.  It's always possible something is different about your system.
Hope this helps someone else.