In Microsoft SQL Server, if you want to grant exec authority to all stored procedures in a database to an individual account, you may have a lot of manual labor ahead of you fully prone to error, or you could automate it. Here’s a stored procedure that’ll do it for you. You just pass in the name of the SQL Server user account.
CREATE procedure [dbo].[GrantExecTo](@Executioner varchar(200)) as
begin
-- From: http://csharpner.blogspot.com/2009/11/grant-exec-to-all-stored-procedures.html
declare @ObjectName varchar(200)
DECLARE ObjectCursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT name
FROM [dbo].sysobjects
WHERE xtype = 'P'
OPEN ObjectCursor
FETCH NEXT FROM ObjectCursor INTO @ObjectName
declare @Command varchar(500)
WHILE (@@FETCH_STATUS -1) BEGIN
IF (@@FETCH_STATUS -2) BEGIN
set @Command = 'grant exec on ' + @ObjectName + ' to [' + @Executioner + ']'
print @Command
exec(@Command)
end
FETCH NEXT FROM ObjectCursor INTO @ObjectName
END
CLOSE ObjectCursor
DEALLOCATE ObjectCursor;
end;
Here’s how you call it, assuming you want to grant exec to a user called “db_user”:
exec GrantExecTo ‘db_user’
This stored procedure searches the system tables for all stored procedures, then builds multiple “grant” statements for each one and executes each one for you. For your convenience of reviewing the results, it prints each generated command to the output window, so that if there are any errors, you’ll know which generated statement triggered it.