GRANT

The GRANT statement assigns one or more privileges to a user.

Required privilege

ADMIN to grant system privileges.

ADMIN or the object owner to grant object privileges.

Usage with TimesTen Scaleout

This statement is supported with TimesTen Scaleout.

SQL syntax

GRANT {SystemPrivilege [,...] | ALL [PRIVILEGES]} [...] TO {user |PUBLIC} [,...]

or

GRANT {{ObjectPrivilege [,...] | ALL [PRIVILEGES]} ON {[Owner.]object}[,...]} TO
{user | PUBLIC} [,...]

Parameters

The following parameters are for granting system privileges:

Parameter	Description
`SystemPrivilege`	This is the system privilege to grant. See "System Privileges" for a list of acceptable values.
`ALL [PRIVILEGES]`	Assigns all system privileges to the user.
`user`	Name of the user to whom privileges are being granted. The user name must first have been introduced to the TimesTen database by a `CREATE USER` statement.
`PUBLIC`	Specifies that the privilege is granted to all users.

The following parameters are for granting object privileges:

Parameter	Description
`ObjectPrivilege`	This is the object privilege to grant. See "Object Privileges" for a list of acceptable values.
`ALL [PRIVILEGES]`	Assigns all object privileges to the user.
`[Owner.]object`	`object` is the name of the object on which privileges are being granted. `Owner` is the owner of the object. If `Owner` is not specified, the user who is granting the privilege is the owner.
`user`	Name of the user to whom privileges are being granted. The user must exist in the database.
`PUBLIC`	Specifies that the privilege is granted to all users.

Description

One or more system privileges can be granted to a user by a user with ADMIN privilege.
One or more object privileges can be granted to a user by the owner of the object.
One or more object privileges can be granted to a user on any object by a user with ADMIN privilege.
To remove a privilege from a user, use the REVOKE statement.
You cannot grant system privileges and object privileges in the same statement.
Only one object can be specified in an object privilege statement.
When replication is configured, this statement is replicated.

Examples

Grant the ADMIN privilege to the user terry:

GRANT admin TO terry;

Assuming the grantor has ADMIN privilege, grant the SELECT privilege to user terry on the customers table owned by user pat:

GRANT SELECT ON pat.customers TO terry;

Grant an object privilege to user terry:

GRANT SELECT ON emp_details_view TO terry;