In Firebolt, a role is a group of permissions that can have privileges assigned to it. You can grant a role to another role or to users. The following table outlines the privileges that can be granted for roles within a particular account:
PrivilegeDescriptionGRANT SyntaxREVOKE Syntax
MODIFYGrants the ability to drop the specified role.GRANT MODIFY ON ROLE <role_name> TO <role>;REVOKE MODIFY ON ROLE <role_name> FROM <role>;

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Examples of granting role permissions

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MODIFY permission

The following code example grants the role developer_role permission to drop the my_role role: 
GRANT MODIFY ON ROLE my_role TO developer_role;