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A. CarruthersBuilding the Snowflake Data Cloudhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8593-0_5

5. Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)

Andrew Carruthers1  
(1)
Birmingham, UK
 

You now know that security is baked into Snowflake from the ground up. In this chapter, you discover how everything is an object and how roles govern everything—object definition, object ownership, and object interaction.

I do not cover every aspect of role-based access control (RBAC) because the subject is complex and subtly different from other legacy relational database management system (RDBMS) implementations. In Snowflake, there are no shortcuts. We call out every entitlement explicitly. ...

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