Is There A Simple Way To Drop All Permissions Of A Role

There has to be a simple way to remove all the permissions of a given
database role without generating a pagefull of messages. REVOKE ALL... will
do the job but outputs redundant messages telling you what the ALL really
means. Is there a more appropriate way of removing permissions (short of
DROP'ing the role outright - which would first entail dropping all the
members)
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Michael HocksteinHi Michael,
My understanding of your issue is that:
You want to find a simple way to remove all permissions of a given database
role without generating a page full of messages. You don't want to use
REVOKE ALL because of its producing redundant messages.
If I have misunderstood, please let me know.
As far as I know, REVOKE ALL is the simplest way to remove all permissions
on a role. For the warning, I am afraid that this is an issue by design. I
recommend that you give Microsoft feedback on this issue which will be
routed to SQL Team so that this issue can be improved in the next release.
I recommend that you give Microsoft feedback via:
http://connect.microsoft.com
Your feedback will be routed to SQL team so that this issue can be resolved
in the next release.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to let me
know. It's my pleasure to be of assistance.
Charles Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support
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==============|||Thanks for your insight. No problem using REVOKE ALL, even with the messages
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Michael Hockstein
"Charles Wang[MSFT]" wrote:

> Hi Michael,
> My understanding of your issue is that:
> You want to find a simple way to remove all permissions of a given databas
e
> role without generating a page full of messages. You don't want to use
> REVOKE ALL because of its producing redundant messages.
> If I have misunderstood, please let me know.
> As far as I know, REVOKE ALL is the simplest way to remove all permissions
> on a role. For the warning, I am afraid that this is an issue by design. I
> recommend that you give Microsoft feedback on this issue which will be
> routed to SQL Team so that this issue can be improved in the next release.
> I recommend that you give Microsoft feedback via:
> http://connect.microsoft.com
> Your feedback will be routed to SQL team so that this issue can be resolve
d
> in the next release.
> If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to let me
> know. It's my pleasure to be of assistance.
> Charles Wang
> Microsoft Online Community Support
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>|||Hi Michael,
Thank you very much for your understanding.
I had thought that if you were very concerned with the warning, you could
write a program and use SMO library to enumerate the permissions on an
user, and then revoke all the permissions one by one. However I noticed
that you wanted a simple way, so I thought the warning may be not your much
concerned issue.
If you have any other questions or concerns, please feel free to let me
know. It's always my pleasure to be of assistance.
Have a great day!
Charles Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support