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Required Permissions on Application Catalog Databases

AdminStudio 2025 R2 | 30.0 | Application Manager

Application Manager is included with AdminStudio Professional and Enterprise Editions.

In order to connect to an AdminStudio Application Catalog database, users require the following permissions on the database:

  • db_datareader

  • db_datawriter

  • alter

  • execute

To assign these required permissions, perform the following steps:

To assign required permissions to an AdminStudio Application Catalog:

  1. Open Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio.
  2. In the Object Explorer, open the Security > Logins node and right-click on the user account or user group that you want to assign permissions to.
  3. Select Properties from the shortcut menu. The Login Properties dialog box opens.
  4. Select User Mapping in the tree. The User Mapping view of the Login Properties dialog box opens.
  5. In the Users mapped to this login list, select the database that you want to assign permissions to.
  6. In the Database role membership for: [DatabaseName] list, select db_datareader and db_datawriter.
  7. Click OK to close the Login Properties dialog box.
  8. In the toolbar, open the drop-down list and select the name of the AdminStudio database that you want to assign permissions to.
  9. Next, click the New Query button in the toolbar to open the Query Editor.
  10. Enter the following query:

    • grant execute to [username]

      grant alter to [username]
      grant references to [username]

    • For example:

  11. Click the Execute button in the toolbar. The following message will be displayed:

Command(s) completed successfully.