I faced a strange issue were I was trying to deploy a new BAM activity and view using the bm.exe tool. Whenever I executed the deploy-all command it simply reports that it deployed the activity and fails while deploying the view with an error like this:
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: The SELECT permission was denied on the object ‘bam_<Some view name>_RTATable’, database ‘BAMPrimaryImport’, schema ‘dbo’.; 42000.
I then go to the BAMPrimaryImport database and find that nothing is deployed!
Actually this is not entirely true as when I opened a SQL profiler trace I found that it is really deploying the activity and then re-trackting everything once the view deployment fails. So what I found is that the utility would execute a SELECT statement on the given table in the BAMPrimaryImport database using the identity of the SQL server service account!!! And as this account really has no access to the database it fails! I do not know why it tries to use the service account but I was able to resolve this by giving the SQL service account db_datareader permissions to this database and it turned out in this case also I need to give this account the BTS_Admin_Users permissions on the BAMStarSchema database.