Add member failed for DatabaseRole

Sayed Ahmad Alrefai 20 Reputation points
2024-08-08T12:48:22.54+00:00

TITLE: Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio

Add member failed for DatabaseRole 'db_accessadmin'. (Microsoft.SqlServer.Smo)

For help, click: https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink?ProdName=Microsoft+SQL+Server&ProdVer=17.100.30.0&EvtSrc=Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.ExceptionTemplates.FailedOperationExceptionText&EvtID=Add+member+DatabaseRole&LinkId=20476

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

An exception occurred while Add member failed for DatabaseRole or batch. (Microsoft.SqlServer.ConnectionInfo)

Cannot use the special principal 'dbo'. (Microsoft SQL Server, Error: 15405)

For help, click: https://docs.microsoft.com/sql/relational-databases/errors-events/mssqlserver-15405-database-engine-error

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  2. Erland Sommarskog 138.7K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2024-08-08T21:45:51.24+00:00

    It seems that you did

    ALTER ROLE db_accessadmin ADD MEMBER dbo

    As the error message says, you cannot do this for the database user dbo. Nor is there any reason to, since dbo is almighty in the database and already has all powers that come with db_accessadmin.

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