The results of the script can be output to the screen or to a file as desired. Then open up the MySQL server prompt, replacing sammy with the name of your MySQL user account: mysql -u sammy -p. If your SQL database system runs on a remote server, SSH into your server from your local machine: ssh sammy yourserverip.

When the script locates a role for the user, it recursively searches for other roles and privileges granted to that role, repeating the process all the way down the chain. Connecting to MySQL and Setting up a Sample Database. In either case, the purpose of these scripts is to allow you to recursively locate all privileges granted to a particular user.

You may also opt for a modified version by David Arthur, find_all_privs2.sql. To resolve this, it is advisable to use an advanced script such as the trusted work of Pete Finnigan and his find_all_privs.sql script. Query select schemaname(t.schemaid) as schemaname, t.name as tablename, t.createdate, t.modifydate from sys.tables t order by schemaname, tablename Columns. Since the DBA_ and USER_ privilege views only display GRANTEES with directly assigned access, often privileges that are inhereted through other roles will not be readily shown. Query below lists all tables in SQL Server database. While the above methods will work for basic system configurations, things start to become messy in Oracle when many roles exist which are in turn granting role privileges to other roles, and so on down the rabbit hole. Since the USER_ privilege views are effectively the same as their DBA_ counterparts, but specific to the current user only, the type of returned data and column names are all identical to those when querying DBA_ views intead.

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