Re: Unable to View Database Diagrams

>> Though any user with access to a database can create a diagram once it has been created

Um, they can only create it once it has been created? Sounds like a bit of a problem.

What is this supposed to say? Does it mean once the *database* has been created? But that doesn't do much for me. I don't normally want a diagram of a non-existent database. So the sentence must mean something else.

Don

Gail Erickson [MS] wrote:
Added a Windows Authenticated User with db_DataReader access to a database
and they are unable to view the database diagram. Is there some permission I
am missing?

Hi John,

Only the database owner and members of the db_owner role can access/view a diagram. Here's the quote from the Books Online topic Understanding Database Diagram Ownership http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186345.aspx. "Though any user with access to a database can create a diagram once it has been created, the only users who can see it are the diagram's creator and any member of the db_owner role."

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