SQL SERVER 2005 Permissions to View Stored Procedures

To turn on this feature across the board for all databases and all users you can issue the following statement:

USE master
GO
GRANT VIEW ANY DEFINITION TO PUBLIC

To turn on this feature across the board for all databases for user "User1" you can issue the following statement:

USE master
GO
GRANT VIEW ANY DEFINITION TO User1

To turn this feature on for a database and for all users that have public access you can issue the following:

USE AdventureWorks
GO
GRANT VIEW Definition TO PUBLIC

If you want to grant access to only user "User1" of the database you can do the following:

USE AdventureWorks
GO
GRANT VIEW Definition TO User1

To turn off this functionality you would issue the REVOKE command such as one of the following:

USE master
GO
REVOKE VIEW ANY DEFINITION TO User1

-- or

USE AdventureWorks
GO
REVOKE VIEW Definition TO User1


If you want to see which users have this access you can issue the following in the database.

USE AdventureWorks
GO
sp_helprotect