Use the Data Object editor to modify privileges on data objects,
such as tables and views.
About this task
To modify privileges on data objects:
- Expand a database connection object in the Data
Source Explorer.
- Expand the folders inside the database connection
and browse to the object that you want to alter.
- Right-click the data object, and select Alter. If the Alter action is not available, then the object that you selected
is not supported for editing. The Data Object editor opens.
Note: Other
menu actions on this object and its children in the Data Source Explorer,
such as Refresh, Drop, or Generate
DDL, are disabled while the editor is open.
- Click the Privileges tab to modify
privileges on this data object. Use the grid and the toolbar buttons
to add, modify, or revoke privileges. Press F1 for additional information.
- Expand the Impacted Objects section
of the editor, and exclude impacted objects from the generated DDL script.
The objects in the tree are potentially impacted by changes to the
object that you are altering. Typically when you modify privileges, you do
not include impacted objects in the DDL script.
- Expand the DDL section of the
editor, and click Preview DDL.
If you
make additional changes in the Data Object Properties or Impacted
Objects sections, click Preview DDL again
to refresh the generated script.
You cannot type directly in the DDL
section of the editor. If you want to modify the generated DDL script, click Open
with SQL editor to open the script in the SQL editor, where you
can make changes and save the script to
an existing data project. You can also use this option to save your changes
to an SQL script that you can run later.
- After you are satisfied with the generated DDL script,
click Run DDL in the Data Object Properties section.
Results
The generated DDL script is run on the database, and the
data object and other impacted objects are modified according to the changes
that you made in the editor. The Data Output view displays the results, including
any errors that occurred. You can view the changes in each data object by
highlighting the object in the Data Source Explorer and opening the Properties
view.