SQL Server - How to Grant Read Access to ALL databases to a Login?

Question

I need to give a new login read access to all 300 databases on a server. How can I accomplish this without checking 300 checkboxes in the user mapping area?

Answer 1

Cursor through the databases and GRANT access to each with a little t-sql.

I did not test the code below.

DECLARE db_cursor CURSOR FOR
SELECT name 
FROM master.dbo.sysdatabases 
WHERE name NOT IN ('master','model','msdb','tempdb') 


WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0  
BEGIN  

GRANT SELECT ON DATABASE::@name to 'username'; 

FETCH NEXT FROM db_cursor INTO @name  
END