DBRoles

Merak Suite 2007.1

December, 2007

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Contents
DBRoles ............................................................................................................................. 1
Roles and permissions ................................................................................................................... 1
Server roles and permissions ....................................................................................................................1
Database roles and permissions................................................................................................................1
Object permissions ....................................................................................................................................1
Granting permissions to allow access........................................................................................................2
Creating objects with the database owner role (dbo) .................................................................................2

How to reach us ................................................................................................................ 3

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Roles and permissions
Server roles provide groupings of administrative privileges at the server level and are managed
independently of databases. Database Roles are groupings of privileges at the database level. Roles are
granted using SQL Server Management Studio (SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express), SQL
Server Enterprise Manager (SQL Server 2000) or MSDE Admin Tool (MSDE 2000) from the Security
folder. Click on the links below to read more about the DB Roles.

Server roles and permissions

This server role

Has this permission level

Sysadmin

Perform any activity

Dbcreator

Create and alter databases

Diskadmin

Manage disk files

Processadmin

Manage SQL Server processes

Serveradmin

Configure server-wide settings

Setupadmin

Install replication

Securityadmin

Manage server logins

Database roles and permissions

This database role

Has this permission level

Public

Maintain all default permissions

Db_owner

Perform any database activity on a particular database

Db_accessadmin

Add or remove database users, groups

Db_ddladmin

Add, modify, drop database objects

Db_securityadmin

Assign statement and object permissions

Db_datareader

Read data from any table

Db_datawriter

Add, change, delete data from all tables

Db_denydatareader

Cannot read data from any table

Db_denydatawriter

Cannot add, change, delete in any table

Object permissions
Activities that involve working with data or executing procedures require a class of permissions called
object permissions. Object permissions are granted using SQL Server Management Studio (SQL Server
2005 and SQL Server 2005 Express), SQL Server Enterprise Manager (SQL Server 2000) or MSDE Admin
Tool (MSDE 2000).
This object

Has this permission level

Table Permissions

select, insert, update and delete

Column Permissions

select, update and references

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Stored Procedure

Permissions: execute

Granting permissions to allow access

You grant permissions to login accounts (users) to allow them to perform activities or work with data in a
database. When you grant permissions you can:
grant permissions in the current database only (using object permissions);
use roles to allow access to databases (i.e. db_owner, sysadmin roles).

Creating objects with the database owner role (dbo)

In general, it is recommended that only the sysadmin and db_owner database roles be used to create
database objects. Defining objects with dbo as the owner enables any user in the database to refer to the
object without including the owner name.

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How to reach us
United States
E-mail: merak-us-support@slb.com
Houston Tel.: +1 713-621-1165

Canada
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Calgary Tel.: +1-888-986-4357 (toll-free)

Europe and Africa

E-mail: merakcslondon@slb.com
London Tel.: +44 (0)207 517 2626

Russia and Caspian

E-mail: merakcsmoscow@slb.com
Moscow Tel.: 7 495 935 8200 Ext. 1218

South America

International
Offices

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Mexico Tel.: 001 866 326 0174
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Malaysia Tel.: +60-3-21694266
Indonesia Tel.: +62-21-5229343
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