March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
816 pages
19h 35m
English
The complete name of a relational database management system (RDBMS) object consists of four parts. In SQL Server, the complete name form is server.database.schema.object. Objects also have owners, and owners are database users and roles. However, the owners are hidden; you typically never refer to an object owner in the code that deals with data, whereas you intensively use schemas. Schemas are more than just namespaces for database objects; they are securables as well. Instead of giving permissions to specific database objects, a DBA can give users permissions to schemas. For example, granting the Execute permission to the Sales schema gives the grantees the Execute permission on all objects in this schema for which this ...