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J. M. LarsonSnowflake Access Controlhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-8038-6_1

1. What Is Access Control?

Jessica Megan Larson1  
(1)
Oakland, CA, USA
 

Access Control is a broad term we use to describe any way that we allocate or restrict the ability to read, modify, delete, or create resources within a system. These objects may be self-contained systems like a server or a database, but more commonly, they’re components of one of those systems, like a table or a schema, or even a single column or row within one of those tables.

Most of us make access control decisions every single day. When we post a picture of our dinner on social media, we decide who should ...

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