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Tibor Karaszi showed how to do this time saving technique on a newsgroup post. You can use the sp_changeobjectowner stored procedure in the Master database to change the owner of an object one at a time, but there is a semi-automatic way to do it.

Open query analyser, change the selected database to the on you want to work on. The following query generates a list of exec commands for all the sprocs and UDFs in the database:

SELECT 'EXEC sp_changeobjectowner ''dbo.' + ROUTINE_NAME + ''', ''thenewuser'''
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.ROUTINES
WHERE ROUTINE_SCHEMA = 'dbo'

Execute it, then click the top left corner of the output window, to select all the rows. Copy and paste the rows into a new query window and execute.

To change table owners, modify the query and repeat the proces:

SELECT 'EXEC sp_changeobjectowner ''dbo.' + TABLE_NAME + ''', ''thenewuser'''
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.TABLES