User-Defined Database Roles
SQL Server enables you to create your own custom database roles. Like the fixed roles, user-defined roles can be used to provide a common set of permissions to a group of users. The key benefit behind using user-defined roles is that you can define your own set of custom permissions that fit your needs. User-defined roles can have a broad range of permissions, including the more granular set of permissions made available with SQL Server 2014.
To demonstrate the power of a user-defined database role, let’s look at a simple example. Let’s say that you have a group of users who need to read all the tables in a database but should be granted access to update only one table. If you look to the fixed database roles, you ...
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