Determining minimum Permissions Needed

  • We have a process which imports data from a downloaded MDB file to a SQL database. The import is performed by software supplied by the vendor of the applicaction software that used the database. The import uses a SQL user created just for the import.

    On the production server, this user is in the sysadmin Server Role. The process runs successfully, but I think sysadmin is too many rights.

    Using a non-production copy, I am trying to determine the minimum rights needed to be granted to the SQL user for the process to run, Although the SQL user is now in the db_owner database role for the database that needs the import, I still get an error which looks like a permissions:

    Import Failed

    Table or indexed view '<table name>' does not have a full-text index or user does not have permission to perform this action.

    Is there a good way to determine what are the minimum rights needed to perform a an action - particularly when you don't have access to read the actual SQL that is run?

  • But you do have access to read the SQL that is run. You can setup an Extended Events session or a Server-side Trace to capture all SQL statements issued against the server when you run the process in non-prod. You could do this while the process runs as a sysadmin to see all commands, or run it as only a db_owner where the last (or close to the last) statement to start will be the one that causes the permissions error 😉

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  • See your error shows that user donot have permission to execute FULLTEXT

    so you can give permission for the same.

    refer to this link for further reference

    http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190502.aspx

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