revoke

Description

Revokes permissions from users, roles, or groups.

Syntax

Revokes permission to access database objects:

revoke [grant option for] 
	{all [privileges] | permission_list} 
	on {table_name [(column_list)] 
		| view_name [(column_list)] 
		| stored_procedure_name | function_name
		| keyname}
	[with {pred_name | {all |no} predicates}]
	from {public | name_list | role_list}
	[cascade]
	[granted by grantor]

Revokes permission to select built-in functions:

revoke select 
	on [builtin] builtin 
	from {name_list | role_list}
	[granted by grantor]

Revokes system privileges:

revoke {all [privileges] | privilege_list} 
	from {public | name_list | role_list}
	[granted by grantor]

Revokes permission to run set proxy

revoke set proxy 
	from {public | name_list | role_list}
	[granted by grantor]

Revokes dbcc privileges:

revoke {dbcc_privilege [on database]
		[, dbcc_privilege [on database], ...]} 
	from {user_list | role_list}
	[granted by grantor]

Revokes the default permissions from public:

revoke default permissions on system tables

Parameters

all

when used to assign permission to access database objects (see syntax for “Revokes permission to access database objects”), all specifies that all permissions, except decrypt, that are applicable to the specified object are revoked. All object owners can use revoke all with an object name to revoke permissions on their own objects. You must revoke decrypt permissions separately.

when granular permissions is not enabled, a system administrator or the database owner can use revoke all to revoke privileges to create database objects (see syntax for “Revokes system privileges”). When used by a system administrator, revoke all revokes all create privileges (create database, create default, create procedure, create rule, create table, create function, and create view). When the database owner uses revoke all, or executes revoke all outside the master database, Adaptive Server revokes all create privileges except create database and prints an informational message.

Revoking all create privileges using revoke all is not supported when granular permissions is enabled. For more information, see “Using Granular Permissions” in the Security Administration Guide.

all cannot be used for a revoke statement that includes a where clause.

permission_list

is a list of permissions to revoke. If more than one permission is listed, separate them with commas. The following table illustrates the access permissions that can be granted and revoked on each type of object:

Object

permission_list can include

Table

select, insert, delete, update references, update statistics, delete statistics, truncate table, decrypt, identity_insert *, identity_update *

View

select, insert, delete, update, decrypt, identity_insert *, identity_update *

Column

select, update, references, decrypt

Column names can be specified in either permission_list or column_list.

Stored procedure

execute

Encryption key

select

Function

execute *

NotePermissions with an asterisk (*) can only be granted when granular permissions is enabled.

builtin

is a built-in function. Specifying built-in functions allows you to differentiate between a table and a revocable built-in function with the same name. The functions are set_appcontext, get_appcontext, list_appcontext, authmech, and rm_appcontext.

privilege_list

is a list of system privileges that can be revoke. System privileges include server-wide and database-wide privileges. See Table 1-21 and Table 1-22 for list of system privileges that can be revoked. Also see the “Usage” section for details on how to revoke system privileges. Use commas to separate multiple commands.

table_name

is the name of the table on which you are revoking permissions. The table must be in your current database.

column_list

is a list of columns, separated by commas, to which the privileges apply. If columns are specified, only select, reference, decrypt, and update permissions can be revoked.

view_name

is the name of the view on which you are revoking permissions. The view must be in your current database.

stored _procedure_name

is the name of the stored procedure on which you are revoking permissions. The stored procedure must be in your current database.

function_name

is the name of the function for which you are revoking permissions. The function must be in your current database.

keyname

is the name of the key from which you are revoking permission. The encryption key must be in your current database. Only one object can be listed for each revoke statement. You can revoke only select permission from a key.

[with {pred_name | {all | no} predicates}]

may be followed by a named predicate, the double keyword all predicates, or the double keyword no predicates.

  • pred_name – name of the predicated grant you are revoking. sp_helprotect displays the predicate names that identify row-filtering grants.

  • no predicates – instructs Adaptive Server to remove only non-predicated grants for the given access from the named grantee.

  • all predicates - instructs Adaptive Server to remove all the predicated grants for the given access from the named grantor. Any non-predicated grants remain.

If you omit the with clause, both predicated and non-predicated grants are revoked (the default behavior).

public

is all users. For object access permissions, public excludes the object owner. For object creation permissions or set proxy authorizations, public excludes the database owner. You cannot grant permissions with grant option to “public” or to other groups or roles.

name_list

is a list of user and group names, separated by commas.

set proxy

Revokes privilege from a user to impersonate another user.

grant option for

revokes with grant option permissions, so that the users specified in name_list can no longer grant the specified permissions to other users. If those users have granted permissions to other users, you must use the cascade option to revoke permissions from those users. The user specified in name_list retains permission to access the object, but can no longer grant access to other users. grant option for applies only to object access permissions, not to object creation permissions.

cascade

revokes the specified object access permissions from all users to whom the revokee granted permissions. Applies only to object access permissions, not to object creation permissions. When you use revoke without grant option for, permissions granted to other users by the revokee are also revoked: the cascade occurs automatically.

granted by grantor

indicates to revoke the permission or privilege granted by grantor instead of the user executing the revoke command.

grantor

a valid user name in current database.

dbcc_privilege

is the name of the dbcc privileges you are revoking. It cannot be a variable. Table 1-21 and Table 1-22 lists dbcc privileges.

database

is the name of the database on which you are revoking permissions. It is used with database-specific dbcc privileges to revoke permission only on the target database. The revokee must be a valid user in the target database. database conforms to the rules for identifiers and cannot be a variable.

If there are multiple revoked actions in the same command, database must be unique.

user_list

is a list of users from whom you are revoking the permission, and cannot be a variable.

role_list

is a list of the name of system or user-defined roles from whom you are revoking the permission, and cannot be a variable.

NoteYou cannot grant or revoke dbcc privileges to public or groups.

all [privileges]

uses all or all privileges to revoke all granted and denied privileges.

column_list

if used with with pred_name, the predicated row access is removed for the named columns. If there still exist other columns referenced for this row-level privilege, the privilege and its related named predicate remain in sysprotects for the reduced column list.

default permissions on system tables

specifies that you revoke the default permissions for the system tables listed in “revoking default permissions on system tables”.

Examples

Example 1

Revokes insert and delete permissions on the titles table from Mary and the “sales” group:

revoke insert, delete 
on titles 
from mary, sales

Example 2

Revokes select permission on the get_appcontext function from “public” (which includes all users):

revoke select on builtin get_appcontext from public 

Compare this to the following, which revokes select permission on a table called get_appcontext, if a table with that name exists:

revoke select on get_appcontext from public

Example 3

Two ways to revoke update permission on the price and advance columns of the titles table from “public:”

revoke update
on titles (price, advance)
from public

or:

revoke update (price, advance)
on titles
from public

Example 4

Revokes permission from Mary and John to use the create database and create table commands. Because create database permission is being revoked, this command must be executed within the master database. Mary’s and John’s create table permission is revoked only within the master database:

revoke create database, create table from mary, john

Example 5

Revokes permission from Harry and Billy to execute either set proxy or set session authorization to impersonate another user in the server:

revoke set proxy from harry, billy

Example 6

Revokes permission from users with sso_role to execute either set proxy or set session authorization:

revoke set session authorization from sso_role

Example 7

Revokes all object creation permissions from Mary in the current database (except create encryption key and create trigger):

revoke all from mary

Example 8

Revokes all object access permissions on the titles table from Mary (except decrypt permission):

revoke all on titles from mary

Example 9

Two ways to revoke Tom’s permission to create a referential integrity constraint on another table that refers to the price and advance columns in the titles table:

revoke references
on titles (price, advance)
from tom

or:

revoke references (price, advance)
on titles
from tom

Example 10

Revokes permission to execute new_sproc from all users who have been granted the “operator” role:

revoke execute on new_sproc from oper_role

Example 11

Revokes John’s permission to grant insert, update, and delete permissions on the authors table to other users. Also revokes from other users any such permissions that John has granted:

revoke grant option for
insert, update, delete
on authors
from john
cascade

Example 12

Revokes dbcc privileges from Frank:

revoke dbcc checkdb on all from frank

Example 13

Revokes truncate table and update statistics privileges from Harry on the authors table:

revoke truncate table on authors from harry
revoke update statistics on authors from harry

Users Billy and Harry can no longer run these commands on authors.

Example 14

Revokes truncate table and update and delete statistics privileges from all users with the oper_role:

revoke truncate table on authors from oper_role
revoke update statistics on authors from oper_role
revoke delete statistics on authors from oper_role

Example 15

Revokes decrypt permissions from public:

revoke decrypt on customer from public

Example 16

Revokes create encryption key permissions from user joe:

revoke create encryption key from joe

Example 17

Revokes select permission for the ssn_key from the database owner.

revoke select on ssn_key from dbo

Example 18

The following examples assume the following grants have been made for selecting from table t1 by user1:

Removes select permission on t1.col2 with pred1:

revoke select on t1 (col2) with pred1
  from user1

NoteAfter this revoke, pred1 is still applied when user1 selects t1.col3.

If the grantor issued either of the following, then all permissions on t1 using pred1 would be revoked from user1:

revoke select on t1 (col2, col3) with pred1
  from user1

or

revoke select on t1 with pred1

Example 19

After the grants described in the previous example, the following removes the grant on t1.col2 and t1.col3 with predicate pred1 (all predicates revokes all row-filtering predicated grants for a given access and grantee):

revoke select on t1 with all predicates
  from user1

Example 20

Removes all select access on t1 from user1; that is, all predicated and nonpredicated grants on t1 are granted to user1 for select on t1:

revoke select on t1 from user1

Example 21

Applies to only the non-predicated grant:

revoke select on t1 with no predicates

Example 22

Revokes select permission on table mary.books from john granted by mary:

revoke select on mary.books from john granted by mary

Example 23

Revokes system privilege manage any login from user smith:

use master
revoke manage any login from smith

Usage


Using the cascade option

revoke grant option for revokes the user’s ability to grant the specified permission to other users, but does not revoke the permission itself from that user. If the user has granted that permission to others, you must use the cascade option; otherwise, you receive an error message and the revoke fails.

For example, say you revoke the with grant option permissions from the user Bob on titles, with this statement:

revoke grant option for select
on titles
from bob
cascade

You cannot use revoke with the cascade option to revoke privileges granted by the table owner. For example, the owner of a table (UserA) can grant privileges to another user (UserB) as in this scenario:

create table T1 (...)
grant select on T1 to UserB

However, the system administrator cannot revoke UserB’s privileges using the revoke privileges command with the cascade option as in this statement:

revoke select on T1 from UserA cascade

This statement revokes the select privileges of the table owner, but does not revoke those privileges from UserB.

By default, all data manipulation language (DML) operations are revoked implicitly for users other than the table owner (except for decrypt permission when restricted decrypt permission is enabled. See the Encrypted Columns Users Guide). Because the sysprotects table contains no records indicating that the table owner has granted and then revoked privileges, the cascade option is not invoked.You must revoke explicitly the select privilege from UserB.


Using granted by


Revoking set proxy and set session authorization


Database user groups


revoking default permissions on system tables

revokes default permissions on all system tables from “public.”

The system tables you can revoke the default permissions for when you issue the command from any database are:

  • sysalternates

  • sysattributes

  • syscolumns

  • syscomments

  • sysconstraints

  • sysdepends

  • sysindexes

  • sysjars

  • syskeys

  • syslogs

  • sysobjects

  • syspartitions

  • sysprocedures

  • sysprotects

  • sysqueryplans

  • sysreferences

  • sysroles

  • syssegments

  • sysstatistics

  • systabstats

  • systhresholds

  • systypes

  • sysusermessages

  • sysusers

  • sysxtypes

The system tables you revoke the default permissions for when you issue this command from the master database are:

  • sysdatabases

  • sysdevices

  • syslocks

  • sysmessages

  • sysprocesses

  • systransactions

  • sysusages

  • sysconfigures

  • syscurconfigs

  • syslanguages

  • syscharsets

  • sysservers

  • systimeranges

  • sysresourcelimits

  • syslogins

  • sysremotelogins


Revoking permissions for update statistics, delete statistics, and truncate table

Adaptive Server allows you to revoke permissions for users, roles, and groups for the update statistics, delete statistics, and truncate table commands. Table owners can also provide permissions through an implicit grant by adding update statistics, delete statistics, and truncate table to a stored procedure and then granting execute permissions on that procedure to a user or role.

You cannot revoke permissions for update statistics at the column level. You must have the sso_role to run update statistics or delete statistics on sysroles, syssrvroles, and sysloginroles security tables.

By default, the database owner has permission to run update statistics and delete statistics on system tables other than sysroles, syssrvroles, and sysloginroles, and can transfer this privilege to other users.

You can also issue grant all to grant permissions on update statistics, delete statistics, and truncate table.

NoteOnce you revoke permission to execute update statistics from a user, they also lose permission to execute variations of this command, such as update all statistics, update partition statistics, update index statistics, update statistics table, and so on. For example, the following revokes Billy permission from running all variations of update statistics on the authors table:

revoke update statistics on authors to billy

If you revoke a user’s permission to execute update statistics, you also revoke their ability to execute the variations of this command.

You cannot revoke variants of update statistics (for example, update index statistics) separately. That is, you cannot issue:

revoke update all statistics from harry

You cannot grant and revoke delete statistics permissions at the column level. See the “Usage” section of grant.


revoke in a clustered environment

revoke fails if you attempt to revoke permissions from user-defined roles in a local temporary database.

Standards

ANSI SQL – Compliance level: Transact-SQL extension.

Permissions

The permission checks for revoke differ based on your granular permissions settings.

Granular permissions enabled

With granular permissions enabled, in general, revoke can be executed by a user with one of the following privilege management privileges, depending the privilege or permission being revoked.

For server-wide privileges, you must be a user with manage server permissions privilege or manage security permissions privilege.

For database-wide privileges, you must be a user with manage database permissions privilege.

For object privileges, you must be the object owner or be a user with manage any object permission privilege.

To execute revoke default, you must be the database owner or a user with own database privilege on the database.

See Table 1-23 "Managed by (when granular permissions enabled)" column for more details.

Granular permissions disabled

With granular permissions enabled:

Command execution – Only a system administrator can revoke create database permission, and only from the master database. Only a system security officer can revoke create trigger and create encryption key permission.

Database consistency checking – Only system administrators can run revoke dbcc commands. Database owners cannot run revoke dbcc.

Database object access – revoke permission for database objects defaults to object owners. An object owner can revoke permission from other users on his or her own database objects.

Functions – Only system administrators can revoke permissions on built-in functions.

Proxy and session authorization – Only a system security officer can revoke set proxy or set session authorization, and only from the master database.

Roles – You can revoke roles only from the master database. Only a system security officer can revoke sso_role, , or a user-defined role from a user or a role. Only system administrators can revoke oper_rolesa_role from a user or a role. Only a user who has both sa_role and sso_role can revoke a role that includes sa_role.

Tables – Database owners can revoke default permissions on system tables. Table owners and the system security officer can revoke decrypt permission on a table or a list of columns in a table.

Defaults – Database owners and logins with sa_role can revoke defaults.

Auditing

Values in event and extrainfo columns of sysaudits are:

Event

Audit option

Command or access audited

Information in extrainfo

47

revoke

revoke

  • Roles – current active roles

  • Keywords or options – Full command text of the revoke statement

  • Previous value – NULL

  • Current value – NULL

  • Other information – NULL

  • Proxy information – original login name, if set proxy is in effect

See also

Commands grant, setuser, set

Functions proc_role

System procedures sp_activeroles, sp_adduser, sp_changedbowner, sp_changegroup, sp_displaylogin, sp_displayroles, sp_dropgroup, sp_dropuser, sp_helpgroup, sp_helprotect, sp_helpuser, sp_modifylogin, sp_role