>>>>I created a VFP 5.0 front-end application for a MS SQL Server database. My application currently has code that deletes all the records in a table and the appends new data to this table. Using SQL DELETE is slow and creates a large log file. I created a SQL Server stored procudure as the System Administrator that truncates the table. This is very fast and does not effect the log. My problem is this: even though I granted user rights to execute the stored procedure, the procedure fails stating that only the database owner or SA can truncate a table. Is there anyway around this?
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>>>Jeff,
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>>>You can make each user impersonate the DBO by giving each login an Alias (of the DBO's login).
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>>>Valerie
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>>Thanks Valerie, but I don't think that would work. The DBO is the SA.
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>>Jeff
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>Change the DBO to some other login ID -- look at the Administrator's Companion index: Owners, database, changing. It referenced page 276 in my copy. I had to do exactly the same thing!
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>Referring to Scot's response -- I don't see DBO as being a bad thing, of course I also don't let the users know what their SQL Server login id's are!! Keeps 'em out of the back-end without going through my app.
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>Valerie

Hi Valerie,

Thanks for all your help! What I ended up doing was creating a new userID and then I was able to alias the new userid to the dbo by issuing the command:

sp_addalis NewUserID, DBO

This created a DBO alias for the new userid for my database. Now I will create code in my VFP front-end that will prompt the user for the NewUserID and password only when I need to run the truncate table code.

Jeff