User must own the table, or be a member of the sysadmin fixed server role, the db_owner fixed database role, or the db_ddladmin fixed database role.

Another implementation since we are using root level commands:

EXECUTE sp_MSforeachdb 'USE [?]; dbcc showfilestats'

Nice Article! This scenario is riddled with 'reg flags', although I have been around enough to say its a common issue. For most enterprise environments, assets are mapped down to...

This sounds like an application level issue vs. a database issue.;-)

Gail - Great Article! Appreciated.