RE: Grant permission to access only 2 tables in a database

SSC Guru

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July 24, 2013 at 1:43 pm

Learner, it kind of sounds like these users are sysadmins? i don't think you can deny a sysadmin anything, so you have to take away their superpowers before you can do anything with them.

If you can't take away their superpowers, you are stuck, i think.

if they are not sysadmins, then some group they are in was given GRANT Symmetric Key Permissions (Transact-SQL), so you can simply explicitly deny them instead:

DENY Symmetric Key Permissions (Transact-SQL)

Lowell

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