December 2013
Intermediate to advanced
1872 pages
153h 31m
English
book
Microsoft® SQL Server 2012 Unleashed
by Ray Rankins, Paul T. Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
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User-Defined Server Roles
User-defined server roles are a new option in SQL Server 2012. They provide the same type of flexibility that is available with user-defined database roles. The difference with user-defined server roles is that server-level permissions are used to customize the rights for this role instead of permissions that are scoped at the database level.
Prior to SQL Server 2012, administrators were limited to using the fixed server roles when granting server side permission. The fixed server roles offer security for many of the common administrative tasks, but there is no way to customize the underlying permissions. Without the ability to customize, administrators would sometimes add logins to fixed server roles that had more rights ...