title: "Summary: Configuring Permissions on Database Objects | Microsoft Docs" ms.custom: "" ms.date: "03/14/2017" ms.prod: "sql" ms.prod_service: "database-engine, sql-database, sql-data-warehouse, pdw" ms.service: "" ms.component: "t-sql" ms.reviewer: "" ms.suite: "sql" ms.technology:
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[!INCLUDEtsql-appliesto-ss2008-all-md] Logins give users permissions to connect to [!INCLUDEssNoVersion]. Users are logins that can access a specific database. Use the GRANT statement to give users permission to read and to access and change the data.
A view is a single SELECT statement and looks like a table to the user. A stored procedure is one or more [!INCLUDEtsql] statements that execute as a batch.