public Role
The public role is a special database role to which every database user belongs. The public role:
- Captures all default permissions for users in a database.
- Cannot have users, groups, or roles assigned to it because they belong to the role by default.
- Is contained in every database, including master, msdb, tempdb, model, and all user databases.
- Cannot be dropped.
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