Changing the owner of a user-defined data type

[Robbie]

Hi Guys

Wonder if you could help me.

Basically I produce an accounts package that uses a SQL 2000 DB as the
RDBMS. I always instruct users to login as 'sa' and the relevant
password when doing an update to my program, as sometimes I need to do
database changes for new stuff.

Found that one of my users has not only logged in with their login
name (in this case Edward), but have also made this login a 'db owner'
so that when I created 2 new user-defined data types they belong to
Edward rather than dbo.

This must have happened a long time ago, but now that they want to
move Edward round the roles and/or delete him from a copy of the
database that they have, they can't because he's the owner of these
user-defined types.

This brings me to the reason for my post, how can I change the owner
from Edward to dbo for these data types? I found an article on
technet of how to do this, but when it suggests changing my
user-defined type to standard format it doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

Rgds

Robbie

[John Bell]

Hi

I don't think there is a way to do this. If there are dependencies on the
UDT they will all need to be removed, then you can drop and re-create it.

John

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Hi Guys

Wonder if you could help me.

Basically I produce an accounts package that uses a SQL 2000 DB as the
RDBMS. I always instruct users to login as 'sa' and the relevant
password when doing an update to my program, as sometimes I need to do
database changes for new stuff.

Found that one of my users has not only logged in with their login
name (in this case Edward), but have also made this login a 'db owner'
so that when I created 2 new user-defined data types they belong to
Edward rather than dbo.

This must have happened a long time ago, but now that they want to
move Edward round the roles and/or delete him from a copy of the
database that they have, they can't because he's the owner of these
user-defined types.

This brings me to the reason for my post, how can I change the owner
from Edward to dbo for these data types? I found an article on
technet of how to do this, but when it suggests changing my
user-defined type to standard format it doesn't seem to work.

Any ideas?

Rgds

Robbie