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I want to copy the permissions on a role to a new role in the same database. &nbsp;How should I do that?<br />
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I wondered about creating a query to select the permissions for the old role from system tables, and then looping through that list and for each one doing GRANT x ON y TO z ... Mind you I don't know where to find the permissions in the system tables. &nbsp;Is that a good idea or is there a better way?<br />
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I want to copy the permissions on a role to a new role in the same database.  How should I do that?

I wondered about creating a query to select the permissions for the old role from system tables, and then looping through that list and for each one doing GRANT x ON y TO z ... Mind you I don't know where to find the permissions in the system tables.  Is that a good idea or is there a better way?



Location of permissions info in system tables

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