15 May 2009

DBMS: Privilege (Definitions)

 "A security attribute that does not have the property of uniqueness and that may be shared by many principals." (Kim Haase et al, "The J2EE™ Tutorial", 2002)

"The right to perform a specific action in the database, granted by the DBA or other database users." (Bob Bryla, "Oracle Database Foundations", 2004)

"A combination of specified resource and actions permitted on the resource." (MongoDb, "Glossary", 2008)

"An action or capability, such as table access, that can be granted to users of the DBMS." (Craig S Mullins, "Database Administration", 2012

"A process that can be performed on a system, such as shut it down, or log in to it remotely." (Mark Rhodes-Ousley, "Information Security: The Complete Reference, Second Edition, 2nd Ed.", 2013)

"The capability of performing a specific function, sometimes on a specific object. See also authority level, authorization." (Sybase, "Open Server Server-Library/C Reference Manual", 2019)

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