CONTROL SERVER vs. sysadmin/sa: permissions, system procedures, DBCC, automatic schema creation and privilege escalation caveats

Since SQL Server 2005, the server wide permission CONTROL SERVER has been existing. In principle being an alternative to sysadmin-membership, it did not turn out to be much more than a shelf warmer. – Little known and even less used. One of the main reasons for this was the absence of an option to grant […]