Granting Non-Admin Users Access To Run ML Services

Niels Berglund walks through the rights needed for a non-administrative user to execute an external script using SQL Server Machine Learning Services:

Oops, something did go wrong, as it turns out that if you try to grant permissions on extended stored procedures, which SPEES is, you need to do it from the master database. Cool, let us switch to master and do it there. Well, if you try to do that – then you get another error: the user does not exist in master, sigh!

At this stage you have a couple of options:

• Add the login for the user to the sysadmin role, or the user to the db_owner role in the actual database. No do not do that, I am only kidding! Do.Not.Do.That!

• Create the user in master and grant the permission. That would work.

• Grant the permission to public.

Check it out, as there are two parts to the process.