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sp_helpsrvrole (Transact-SQL)

Returns a list of the SQL Server fixed server roles.

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Syntax

sp_helpsrvrole [ [ @srvrolename = ] 'role' ]

Arguments

  • [ @srvrolename= ] 'role'
    Is the name of the fixed server role. role is sysname, with a default of NULL. role can be one of the following values.

    Fixed server role

    Description

    sysadmin

    System administrators

    securityadmin

    Security administrators

    serveradmin

    Server administrators

    setupadmin

    Setup administrators

    processadmin

    Process administrators

    diskadmin

    Disk administrators

    dbcreator

    Database creators

    bulkadmin

    Can execute BULK INSERT statements

Return Code Values

0 (success) or 1 (failure)

Result Sets

Column name

Data type

Description

ServerRole

sysname

Name of the server role

Description

sysname

Description of ServerRole

Remarks

Fixed server roles are defined at the server level and have permissions to perform specific server-level administrative activities. Fixed server roles cannot be added, removed, or changed.

To add or removed members from server roles, see ALTER SERVER ROLE (Transact-SQL).

All logins are a member of public. sp_helpsrvrole does not recognize the public role because, internally, SQL Server does not implement public as a role.

sp_helpsrvrole does not take a user-defined server role as an argument. To list the user-defined server roles, see the examples in ALTER SERVER ROLE (Transact-SQL).

Permissions

Requires membership in the public role.

Examples

A. Listing the fixed server roles

The following query returns the list of fixed server roles.

EXEC sp_helpsrvrole ;

B. Listing fixed and user-defined server roles

The following query returns a list of both fixed and user-defined server roles.

SELECT * FROM sys.server_principals WHERE type = 'R' ;

C. Returning a description of a fixed server role

The following query returns the name and description of the diskadmin fixed server roles.

sp_helpsrvrole 'diskadmin' ;

See Also

Reference

Security Stored Procedures (Transact-SQL)

Server-Level Roles

sp_addsrvrolemember (Transact-SQL)

sp_dropsrvrolemember (Transact-SQL)

sp_helpsrvrolemember (Transact-SQL)

System Stored Procedures (Transact-SQL)