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Why do I have problems revoking permissions on some tables with SQL Server? The command works ok, but the users still have permissions (as shown by sp_helprotect)

This is a known bug in SQL Server with tables that have 8n-1 columns. I.e. 7, 15, 22 etc.

To workaround it remove all entries from sysprotects and then re-grant permissions as necessary.

    use <dbname>
    go
    exec sp_configure 'allow updates',1
    go
    reconfigure with override
    go
    delete sysprotects where id = object_id('<tblname>')
    go
    exec sp_configure 'allow updates',0
    go
    reconfigure with override
    go

Michael R. Hotek

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