I know the First question you will ask it “Why we need to hidden it IF the user doesn’t have access on it and he can’t do any operation on this DB 🤔” Simple answer “Business needs & Business Case & Management Request” Whatever the answer but this is the request from management So let us see How we can do it using two solutions.
First Solution hide the DB using Permissions
Before starting on the solution, I need to highlight important point “to implement this solution the user will take ownership of the DB” and this will break the security role. To hide the DB, we need two steps after it the user when he will log in to SQL Server management studio, he will see only this database:
- Deny or remove the permission of View on databases from the Public User on the instance level.
At this time no one will able to see any databases on the SQL Server management studio except the admins only this means you should grant this permission for specific users that you need them to view all databases “It is just view Permission, accessing the DB is another permission”.
- Change the DB Authorization by the user name you need him to view this DB only or you can do this step on two or three or more databases at this time this user when he login to SQL Server Management studio he will view these databases only the other databases will be hidden.
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