The Owner property exposes the Microsoft® SQL Server™ user-assigned ownership rights to the referenced SQL Server element.
| DBObject Object | StoredProcedure Object |
| Default Object | Table Object |
| ReplicationStoredProcedure Object | Trigger Object |
| ReplicationTable Object | UserDefinedDatatype Object |
| Rule Object | View Object |
object.Owner [= value]
| Part | Description |
|---|---|
| object | Expression that evaluates to an object in the Applies To list |
| value | String identifying a database user by name |
SQL Server establishes ownership rules for database objects. Some permissions default to an object owner, and ownership forms one portion of SQL Server access control.
For SQL Server database objects, an owner also forms part of the identifier naming the object. For example, Northwind.andrewf.Employees identifies a table owned by the database user andrewf.
Set the Owner property to change database object ownership. The value must reference an existing SQL Server database user. Permission to change ownership defaults to members of the db_owner role, but users who are members of both the db_ddladmin and db_securityadmin roles can also set the property.
String
Read-only for the DBObject, ReplicationStoredProcedure, ReplicationTable, and UserDefinedDatatype objects. Read/write for all other objects.
HRESULT GetOwner(SQLDMO_LPBSTR pRetVal);
HRESULT SetOwner(SQLDMO_LPCSTR NewValue);
Note SQL-DMO strings are always returned as OLE BSTR objects. A C/C++ application obtains a reference to the string. The application must release the reference by using SysFreeString.