sp_helpsrvrolemember (Transact-SQL)

Returns information about the members of a SQL Server fixed server role.

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Syntax

sp_helpsrvrolemember [ [ @srvrolename = ] 'role' ]

Arguments

  • [ @srvrolename = ] 'role'
    Is the name of a fixed server role. role is sysname, with a default of NULL. If roleis not specified, the result set includes information about all fixed server roles.

    role can be any 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

MemberName

sysname

Name of a member of ServerRole

MemberSID

varbinary(85)

Security identifier of MemberName

Remarks

Use sp_helprolemember to display the members of a database role.

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

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

sp_helpsrvrolemember does not take a user-defined server role as an argument. To determine the members of a user-defined server role, see the examples in ALTER SERVER ROLE (Transact-SQL).

Permissions

Requires membership in the public role.

Examples

The following example lists the members of the sysadmin fixed server role.

EXEC sp_helpsrvrolemember 'sysadmin'

See Also

Reference

sp_helprole (Transact-SQL)

sp_helprolemember (Transact-SQL)

System Stored Procedures (Transact-SQL)

Security Stored Procedures (Transact-SQL)

Security Functions (Transact-SQL)