VIEW SERVER STATE permssion.

  • What will VIEW SERVER STATE permission do? will it have the permission to restart the sql server?

  • No, it wont. It allows acces to a range of system catalogs

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  • Pretty sure the key word there is VIEW, but we could also add STATE. Same thing with VIEW DATABASE STATE.

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  • Grant Fritchey (7/30/2014)


    Pretty sure the key word there is VIEW, but we could also add STATE. Same thing with VIEW DATABASE STATE.

    😀 clearly those terms are confusing!

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