Raise your hand if you think this is a real pain in the bottom method for editing user permissions? Yeah, me too. Visual Studio Team System Database Edition is far to fine a tool to make us edit XML to set database user permissions. A co-worker has posted a change request on MS Connect. Connect works really well as long as people vote for what you report. I’ve seen several things change in SQL Server or get fixed primarily because of the reports in Connect. So if doing this:
<PermissionStatement Action=”GRANT”>
    <Permission>EXECUTE</Persmission>
   <Grantee>UserRole</Grantee>
    <Object Name=”dbo” Type=”SCHEMA”/>
</PermissionStatement>
Makes you crazy and you would rather type this:
GRANT EXECUTE ON SCHEMA :: dbo TO UserRole ;
Then click on the link and get the word in front out to Microsoft.