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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed
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Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Unleashed

by Ray Rankins, Paul Bertucci, Chris Gallelli, Alex T. Silverstein
June 2015
Intermediate to advanced
1800 pages
70h 6m
English
Sams
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Using T-SQL to Manage Server Roles

The CREATE SERVER ROLE, ALTER SERVER ROLE, and DROP SERVER ROLE statements were added in SQL Server 2014 to facilitate the management of the new user-defined server roles. The following example uses the CREATE SERVER ROLE statement to create a new Server Role named DbCreatorOnly:

CREATE SERVER ROLE [DbCreatorOnly]

The ALTER SERVER ROLE statement can be used to change the membership of a server role or change names of a user—defined server role. For example, to assign a login named Chris to the new DbCreatorOnly role, you can use the following:

ALTER SERVER ROLE [DbCreatorOnly] ADD MEMBER [Chris]

As mentioned earlier, user-defined roles can also be added ...

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