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Removes server-level firewall settings from your [!INCLUDEssSDS] server. This stored procedure is only available in the master database to the server-level principal login.
sp_delete_firewall_rule [@name =] 'name'
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The argument of the stored procedure is:
[@name =] 'name'
The name of the server-level firewall setting that will be removed. name is nvarchar (128) with no default.
In [!INCLUDEssSDS], login data required to authenticate a connection and server-level firewall rules are temporarily cached in each database. This cache is periodically refreshed. To force a refresh of the authentication cache and make sure that a database has the latest version of the logins table, execute DBCC FLUSHAUTHCACHE (Transact-SQL).
Only the server-level principal login created by the provisioning process can delete server level firewall rules. The user must be connected to the master database to execute sp_delete_firewall_rule.
The following example removes the server-level firewall setting named 'Example setting 1'. Execute the statement in the virtual master database.
EXEC sp_delete_firewall_rule N'Example setting 1';
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