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Orphan records in the SecurableObject table

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Posted on by PA-22040759-0 6,194

I'm working on fixing a bug in an EG security tool that we sell. 

The feature I'm looking into is dependant on the SecurableObject table and I have found that it contains some orphan records. It looks like renaming a securable object, like a menu item, doesn't always get reflected in the table. I have a record for both the new and the old name. Renaming has been done under TFS versions kontrol.

I'm of course not able to repro the scenario.

Does anyone have an insight as to why the tables ends up with these orphans, or do you know of any existing way to clean it up?

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    Sohaib Cheema Profile Picture
    Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

    Hi Palle,

    Your observation is correct.

    I believe reason for orphan objects in this table/view is because records are never deleted. Instead every time you rename an object it creates a record irrespective of whether old object does exist or not.

    As an experiment you can do following

    Create a dummy table and save it. Now drag this table into a new privilege and run following query

     

    select * from SecurableObject

    where Name Like '%DummyTable%'

     

     

    Further, rename DummayTable to something else let’s say DummayTableNewName

    Now re-add this table DummayTableNewName into privilege , which we created earlier. Now Rerun the above query

     

    You will find two records in table/view SecurableObject

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    PA-22040759-0 6,194 on at

    Excellent Sohaib.

    Just the repro I needed.

    I see that the the "orphan" records gets a recVersion of -1. I wonder if I can trust that is always the case.

    Thank you.

  • Sohaib Cheema Profile Picture
    Sohaib Cheema 49,438 User Group Leader on at

    Hi Palle,


    Unfortunately I cannot trust -1(RecVersion) as of now. Because as per my testing its -1 for new record as well as for orphan record.

    .
    As of now I can say that, because origin of SecurableObject(view) is ModelSecurityCommon(view), so We can do something e.g. to join SecurableObject with model information to know what elements really exist as of now. Thus we can skip non-existing elements from SecurableObject

    .


    I will spend some more time to explore it, later by this weekend.

    In addition, I am not sure about working of your security tool/product i.e. (EG), if I do have some idea what the product EG is doing with SecurableObject, might be I can contribute somewhat more effectively.

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    SecurableObjects is a SQL view on ModelSecurityCommon table within the model database.

    You could correlate ModelSecurityCommon with ModelElement by name to see what is missing.

    SELECT * FROM [dbo].[ModelSecurityCommon] AS Security
WHERE NOT (EXISTS(
	SELECT 'x' FROM [dbo].[ModelElement] AS Element
		WHERE Security.NAME = Element.Name
	))

    This should give a list of securable objects which no longer have a match with any AOT elements.

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