You can give your users rights to check if reports have run or jobs are complete without granting full admin rights. Here's how you can do so by using SQLAgentReaderRole in SQL Server.

permission Specifies a permission that can be granted on a database. For a list of the permissions, see the Remarks section later in this topic. ALL This option does not grant all possible permissions ...

Learn how to backup your database users using SQL scripts, database tools, backup software, and cloud services. Also, discover some best practices to improve your backup quality and reliability.

Today we are extending our look at user accounts by creating database users and then adding them to specific roles for to provide the proper level of access to a database. First thing is first: we ...

Use the following steps to grant an existing database user db_owner permissions. Theses steps assume that you are connected to SQL Database in Object Explorer in SSMS and are connected to your SQL ...