Hello Mike:

Yes, that will work.
But, I really didn't want the user to be part of one of those.

I did find a script at swynk.com for 6.5 that does the trick.
I haven't bothered to find out if it works in 7.0.
It just cycles through all tables and views in the database and grants the rights.

Rick

>>Is there any way to grant permissions on all of the tables in a database at the same time without doing a GRANT ALL for each table, one by one?
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>I don't think so. What about GRANTING permissions to a role and then making the specific users members of the role. Does one of the fixed database roles server the purpose that you need?
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>-Mike