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Re: want ability to desc, but not select/insert/update/delete

From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jan 1999 00:27:09 GMT
Message-ID: <36a522a1.967350@192.86.155.100>


A copy of this was sent to bdg_at_hotmail.com (if that email address didn't require changing) On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:16:21 GMT, you wrote:

>Any security set-up recommendations which would allow a developer account to
>describe a table in another schema, but not select/insert/update/delete?
>
>Ideally the developers would be able to use Oracle EM Schema Manager or a
>reverse engineering tool to get at the full table definition (including
>constraints), but not be able to write applications directly against that
>schema. As background, we're modifying an existing database and the
>developers need to reference a controlled original database version, but do
>work on another version.
>

one way would be to create views of the base tables such as:

create view emp_view as select * from emp where 1=0;

and grant select on the views. If you set up another schema, you could even make the view names have the same names as the base tables....

>Thanks,
>Brian Gastineau
>
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Thomas Kyte
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Oracle Service Industries
Reston, VA USA

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