Who can stop a database server?

When you start a database server, you can use the -gk option to set the level of permissions required for users to stop the server with dbstop. For personal database servers, the default is all. The default level of permissions required is DBA for network database servers, but you can also set the value to all or none. (However, anyone at the computer can click Shut Down on the database server messages window.)

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