Members of the sysadmin fixed server role can perform any activity in the server. By default, all members of the Windows BUILTIN\Administrators group, the local administrator's group, are members of the sysadmin fixed server role.

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Reference

Server-Level Roles

Concepts

Permissions of Fixed Server Roles

Other Resources

sp_helpsrvrole (Transact-SQL)
sp_helpsrvrolemember (Transact-SQL)
sp_srvrolepermission (Transact-SQL)
Security Considerations for Databases and Database Applications

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