How to grant users read-only access to all databases

Question

I want a group of users to have read-only access to all tables and views on all databases on SQL Server (I'm using SS2008). I'd like those users to have read-only access to all future tables and view.

How would you set that up?

Answer 1

add the user to the db_datareader role

example

exec sp_addrolemember 'db_datareader',YourLogin

Info about db_datareader: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms188629(SQL.90).aspx

Answer 2

You should just be able to add the users to the db_datareader database role in each of the databases. You could write a script to loop through the databases and do it for you.