SHOW DATABASE ROLES

Lists all the database roles in the specified database.

Important

A user with any active role that has been granted any privilege on the active database (e.g. USAGE) can list the database roles in the database. However, this does not necessarily mean the role allows users to use the database roles to perform SQL actions. To use a database role, it must first be granted to an account role that users can activate in a user session, or to an account role lower in a hierarchy.

This is a part of Discretionary Access Control and Role-Based Access Control. For more information, see Overview of Access Control.

Tip

In addition to SQL, you can also use other interfaces, such as Snowflake REST APIs, Snowflake Python APIs, and Snowflake CLI. See Alternate interfaces.

See also:

SHOW GRANTS , CREATE DATABASE ROLE , ALTER DATABASE ROLE , DROP DATABASE ROLE

Syntax

SHOW DATABASE ROLES IN DATABASE <name>
  [ LIMIT <rows> [ FROM '<name_string>' ] ]
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Required parameters

name

Specifies the name of the database.

The command returns an error if you do not specify the name identifier.

Optional parameters

LIMIT rows [ FROM 'name_string' ]

Optionally limits the maximum number of rows returned, while also enabling “pagination” of the results. The actual number of rows returned might be less than the specified limit. For example, the number of existing objects is less than the specified limit.

The optional FROM 'name_string' subclause effectively serves as a “cursor” for the results. This enables fetching the specified number of rows following the first row whose object name matches the specified string:

  • The string must be enclosed in single quotes and is case-sensitive.

  • The string does not have to include the full object name; partial names are supported.

Default: No value (no limit is applied to the output)

Note

For SHOW commands that support both the FROM 'name_string' and STARTS WITH 'name_string' clauses, you can combine both of these clauses in the same statement. However, both conditions must be met or they cancel out each other and no results are returned.

In addition, objects are returned in lexicographic order by name, so FROM 'name_string' only returns rows with a higher lexicographic value than the rows returned by STARTS WITH 'name_string'.

For example:

  • ... STARTS WITH 'A' LIMIT ... FROM 'B' would return no results.

  • ... STARTS WITH 'B' LIMIT ... FROM 'A' would return no results.

  • ... STARTS WITH 'A' LIMIT ... FROM 'AB' would return results (if any rows match the input strings).

Usage notes

  • This command only supports showing database roles in a specific database.

    You can’t use this command to show database roles in the account.

  • The command doesn’t require a running warehouse to execute.

  • The command only returns objects for which the current user’s current role has been granted at least one access privilege.

  • The MANAGE GRANTS access privilege implicitly allows its holder to see every object in the account. By default, only the account administrator (users with the ACCOUNTADMIN role) and security administrator (users with the SECURITYADMIN role) have the MANAGE GRANTS privilege.

  • To post-process the output of this command, you can use the RESULT_SCAN function, which treats the output as a table that can be queried. You can also use the pipe operator to query the output of this command.

Example

Return up to ten database roles in the database named mydb after the first database role named db_role2:

SHOW DATABASE ROLES IN DATABASE mydb LIMIT 10 FROM 'db_role2';
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Alternate interfaces

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