Users and roles
Different databases use concepts of users and roles to manage the permissions in your databases. Both of them are used for access control and define a set of permissions. In some databases, a role can be a user that has the login right.
Users and roles ( 
and 
) can be found in the Database Explorer under Server Objects.
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For the reference on other node and object icons, refer to the Data sources and their elements chapter of Database Explorer topic.
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Hide, sort, filter, and group tree objects using the tree objects view options in the View Options menu.
Users and roles are not supported for the following database vendors: BigQuery, Couchbase Query, HSQLDB, MongoDB, Redis.
Create a user or a role
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In the Database Explorer, right-click a data source node and navigate to or .
For some databases, you need to specify a database where you want to create a role or a user. In this case, you must expand the data source tree to the database node, right-click the database node and select or .
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In the Create dialog that opens, enter the name of your user or role in the Name field.
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Select and specify the necessary database settings.
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In the Preview pane, you can view and change the generated SQL code.
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Click OK to add your user role.
Grant permissions
You can grant a user and a role permissions for database objects.
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In the Database Explorer, right-click a user or a role and select Modify Role.
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In the Grants pane of the Modify dialog, click the Add button (
).You can use auto-completion for database objects.
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Click the grant field, from the drop-down near each permission, select Grant or Grant with option. The Grant with option permission means that a user can grant to or revoke from other users those permissions.
