Failure to execute msdb.dbo.sp_send_dbmail

Question

I am getting this error:

Msg 229, Level 14, State 5, Procedure sp_send_dbmail, Line 1
The EXECUTE permission was denied on the object \'sp_send_dbma

Answer 1

Ok, just to add to this topic since this was really good information, but still didn't completely solve my problem. If I ran the query in SSMS, it worked once I was granted permission to execute the sp_send_dbmail procedure in msdb. However, when a job was running as my user, it would still fail.

Read through a lot of stuff to get to the conclusion that you need to make sure the sid for the owner in your DB matches the owner sid in the master DB:

--To get owner SID recorded in the master database for the current database
SELECT owner_sid FROM sys.databases WHERE database_id=DB_ID()
--To get the owner SID recorded for the current database owner
SELECT sid FROM sys.database_principals WHERE name=N'dbo'

Even though I had given access to the msdb and execute rights on the sp_send_dbmail, it was still having issues related to the database being untrustworthy and that the owner sids didn't match. Consequently, I had to the Trustworthy on for the database I was running in and fix the ownership issue:

ALTER DATABASE my_db SET TRUSTWORTHY ON;

ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON Database::my_db TO [domain\user];

I had to go through a lot of ferreting around to finally find this write-up which is much more enlightening.