I am trying to make it so a test user can only see the dbs that he has access to. Currently, the user can only see the one db that he has access to, but he is now the db_owner of that database. I don’t feel that a test user should be the db_owner as this gives him access to everything in the database. From the articles that I found online, this seems to be the only way to make it so the user can only see the single db. When I use DENY VIEW ANY DATABASE TO [user] he does not see any db within the server, including the db I have given explicit view privileges to. Is there a way to allow him to only view the single db without giving him db_owner privileges?

The article I am referencing is here.