{"id":10348,"date":"2019-03-11T19:28:17","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:28:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dbtut.com\/?p=10348"},"modified":"2019-03-11T19:28:18","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T19:28:18","slug":"what-is-application-role-in-sql-server","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dbtut.com\/index.php\/2019\/03\/11\/what-is-application-role-in-sql-server\/","title":{"rendered":"What is Application Role in SQL Server"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Application Role is a role at the database level. You can use Application Roles to access a database only with specific users from a specific application.<\/p>\n<p>These roles are not active by default. You can create an application role on the database in the following way.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true \">CREATE APPLICATION ROLE APPROLETest   \n    WITH PASSWORD = '123456'   \n    , DEFAULT_SCHEMA = dbo;\n<\/pre>\n<p>Because Application Roles are defined on a database basis, they cannot access any data in the instance level. You can authorize an existing application role on a schema basis as follows.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">GRANT SELECT ON SCHEMA::dbo TO APPROLETest;<\/pre>\n<p>Application Roles do not have members, such as database roles. You can activate application roles from the application using the sp_setapprole stored procedure as follows.<\/p>\n<pre class=\"lang:default decode:true\">EXEC sp_setapprole 'APPROLETest', '123456';<\/pre>\n<p>Because Application Roles are not connected to any login, moving the database to another instance will be easier.<\/p>\n<p>We can create user without login since SQL Server 2005 version. This feature was introduced instead of Application Role. You may want to read my article &#8220;How To Create SQL User Without Login&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Another way to connect to a database without a login is to convert the database to a Contained Database. 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