Re: Changing the owner of a user-defined data type Hi
I don't think there is a way to do this. If there are dependencies on the
UDT they will all need to be removed, then you can drop and re-create it.
John
"Robbie" <google@astraaccounts.co.uk> wrote in message
news:f588d13a.0310062351.46e1f3f3@posting.google.c om...
> Hi Guys
>
> Wonder if you could help me.
>
> Basically I produce an accounts package that uses a SQL 2000 DB as the
> RDBMS. I always instruct users to login as 'sa' and the relevant
> password when doing an update to my program, as sometimes I need to do
> database changes for new stuff.
>
> Found that one of my users has not only logged in with their login
> name (in this case Edward), but have also made this login a 'db owner'
> so that when I created 2 new user-defined data types they belong to
> Edward rather than dbo.
>
> This must have happened a long time ago, but now that they want to
> move Edward round the roles and/or delete him from a copy of the
> database that they have, they can't because he's the owner of these
> user-defined types.
>
> This brings me to the reason for my post, how can I change the owner
> from Edward to dbo for these data types? I found an article on
> technet of how to do this, but when it suggests changing my
> user-defined type to standard format it doesn't seem to work.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Rgds
>
> Robbie |