sp_helpsrvrolemember (Transact-SQL)

Article
02/28/2023

Applies to: SQL Server

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

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';