How to view the roles and permissions granted to any database user in Azure SQL server instance?

Question

Could you guide me on how to view the current roles/permissions granted to any database user in Azure SQL Database or in general for a MSSQL Server instance?

I have this below query:

SELECT r.name role_principal_name, m.name AS member_principal_name
FROM sys.database_role_members rm 
JOIN sys.database_principals r 
    ON rm.role_principal_id = r.principal_id
JOIN sys.database_principals m 
    ON rm.member_principal_id = m.principal_id
WHERE r.name IN ('loginmanager', 'dbmanager');

I further need to know what are the permissions granted to these roles "loginmanager" and "dbmanager"?

Could you help me on this?

Answer 1

Per the MSDN documentation for sys.database_permissions, this query lists all permissions explicitly granted or denied to principals in the database you're connected to:

SELECT DISTINCT pr.principal_id, pr.name, pr.type_desc, 
    pr.authentication_type_desc, pe.state_desc, pe.permission_name
FROM sys.database_principals AS pr
JOIN sys.database_permissions AS pe
    ON pe.grantee_principal_id = pr.principal_id;

Per Managing Databases and Logins in Azure SQL Database, the loginmanager and dbmanager roles are the two server-level security roles available in Azure SQL Database. The loginmanager role has permission to create logins, and the dbmanager role has permission to create databases. You can view which users belong to these roles by using the query you have above against the master database. You can also determine the role memberships of users on each of your user databases by using the same query (minus the filter predicate) while connected to them.