A login can be granted CONTROL SERVER rights,
USE mater GO CREATE LOGIN test WITH PASSWORD = ‘myPassword123’; GO GRANT CONTROL SERVER TO test;
CONTROL SERVER rights allows a login to do anything in SQL Server, but there is one subtle difference with sysadmin.
It is possible to explicitly DENY connect to the login with CONTROL SERVER right ,
DENY CONNECT TO test;
Members of the syadmin bypass the DENY
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