sp_helpsrvrolemember (Transact-SQL)
Returns information about the members of a SQL Server fixed server role.
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Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions
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_helprolemember (Transact-SQL)
System Stored Procedures (Transact-SQL)