DBA   Grants DBA authority to the group; a group with DBA authority can fully administer the database.

Resource   Grants resource authority to the group; a group with resource authority can create database objects.

Remote DBA   Grants Remote DBA authority to the group. The MobiLink client utility (dbmlsync) requires REMOTE DBA authority. A user ID with this type of authority should run the SQL Remote Message Agent (dbremote) to ensure that actions can be performed without creating security loopholes. See GRANT REMOTE DBA statement [MobiLink] [SQL Remote].

Backup   Select this option to grant backup authority to the group.

Validate   Select this option to grant validate authority to the group; a group with validate authority can perform the operations executed by the different VALIDATE statements, such as database, table, index, and checksum validation.

Profile   Grants application profiling and database tracing capabilities to the group.

Read file   Grants the ability to use query files using the OPENSTRING clause of the SELECT statement.

Read Client File   Grants the ability to read a file on the client computer.

Write Client File   Grants the ability to write to a file on the client computer.