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MySQL Crash Course
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MySQL Crash Course

by Rick Silva
May 2023
Intermediate to advanced
352 pages
7h 23m
English
No Starch Press
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18 Protecting Salary Data with Views

In this project, you’ll use views to hide sensitive salary data in an employee table. The company in question has one database user from each department (Human Resources, Marketing, Accounting, Technology, and Legal) who is allowed access to most employee data. However, only users from Human Resources should be able to access the employees’ salaries.

Views can hide sensitive data, but they can also be used to simplify access to a complex query, or to select just the relevant data in a table—for example, to show just the table’s rows for a particular department.

Creating the employee Table

Start by creating ...

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