Oracle Database 11g & MySQL 5.6 Developer Handbook

racle Database 11g offers many more facilities for securing the database than MySQL 5.5, including the Oracle Database Vault, Oracle Label Security, and Transparent Data Encryption. Refer to the Oracle Database 2 Day + Security Guide for more information.

MySQL doesn’t support Virtual Private Databases (VPDs) such as traditional Oracle databases. A VPD allows you to stripe rows in a table, which lets you restrict access to them based on user privileges. Striping a row is easy: you just add a column that holds a key that specifies your access ...