CHAPTER10Implementing Fine-Grained Access Controls with Views
In Chapter 7, you were introduced to database system and object privileges. System privileges allow the user to access data or execute procedures on a global- or systemwide scale. Object privileges, on the contrary, allow the user rights on specific objects. The commonality between the two is that the security privileges are coarse-grained and only regulate actions at the object level.
This chapter reviews various ways of restricting access to data within the most critical database objects: the data tables. You will see how database views can be used as effective security mechanisms for providing security for the individual table rows and columns. There are some limitations and challenges ...
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