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title: "CREATE ROLE (Transact-SQL) | Microsoft Docs" ms.custom: "" ms.date: "04/10/2017" ms.prod: sql ms.prod_service: "database-engine, sql-database, sql-data-warehouse, pdw" ms.component: "t-sql|statements" ms.reviewer: "" ms.suite: "sql" ms.technology: t-sql ms.tgt_pltfrm: "" ms.topic: "language-reference" f1_keywords:

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CREATE ROLE (Transact-SQL)

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Creates a new database role in the current database.

Topic link icon Transact-SQL Syntax Conventions

Syntax

CREATE ROLE role_name [ AUTHORIZATION owner_name ]

Arguments

role_name
Is the name of the role to be created.

AUTHORIZATION owner_name
Is the database user or role that is to own the new role. If no user is specified, the role will be owned by the user that executes CREATE ROLE.

Remarks

Roles are database-level securables. After you create a role, configure the database-level permissions of the role by using GRANT, DENY, and REVOKE. To add members to a database role, use ALTER ROLE (Transact-SQL). For more information, see Database-Level Roles.

Database roles are visible in the sys.database_role_members and sys.database_principals catalog views.

For information about designing a permissions system, see Getting Started with Database Engine Permissions.

Caution

[!INCLUDEssCautionUserSchema]

Permissions

Requires CREATE ROLE permission on the database or membership in the db_securityadmin fixed database role. When you use the AUTHORIZATION option, the following permissions are also required:

  • To assign ownership of a role to another user, requires IMPERSONATE permission on that user.

  • To assign ownership of a role to another role, requires membership in the recipient role or ALTER permission on that role.

  • To assign ownership of a role to an application role, requires ALTER permission on the application role.

Examples

The following examples all use the AdventureWorks database.

A. Creating a database role that is owned by a database user

The following example creates the database role buyers that is owned by user BenMiller.

CREATE ROLE buyers AUTHORIZATION BenMiller;  
GO

B. Creating a database role that is owned by a fixed database role

The following example creates the database role auditors that is owned the db_securityadmin fixed database role.

CREATE ROLE auditors AUTHORIZATION db_securityadmin;  
GO

See Also

Principals (Database Engine)
ALTER ROLE (Transact-SQL)
DROP ROLE (Transact-SQL)
EVENTDATA (Transact-SQL)
sp_addrolemember (Transact-SQL)
sys.database_role_members (Transact-SQL)
sys.database_principals (Transact-SQL)
Getting Started with Database Engine Permissions