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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

By : Chintan Mehta, Ankit K Bhavsar, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah
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MySQL 8 Administrator???s Guide

By: Chintan Mehta, Ankit K Bhavsar, Hetal Oza, Subhash Shah

Overview of this book

MySQL is one of the most popular and widely used relational databases in the world today. The recently released version 8.0 brings along some major advancements in the way your MySQL solution can be administered. This handbook will be your companion to understand the newly introduced features in MySQL and show you how you can leverage them to design a high-performance MySQL solution for your organization. This book starts with a brief introduction to the new features in MySQL 8, and then quickly jumping onto the crucial administration topics that you will find useful in your day-to-day work. Topics such as migrating to MySQL 8, MySQL benchmarking, achieving high performance by implementing the indexing techniques, and optimizing your queries are covered in this book. You will also learn how to perform replication, scale your MySQL solution and implement effective security techniques. There is also a special section on the common and not so common troubleshooting techniques for effective MySQL administration is also covered in this book. By the end of this highly practical book, you will have all the knowledge you need to tackle any problem you might encounter while administering your MySQL solution.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)

Roles and permissions

To put it simply, a role is a collection of privileges. To create a role in MySQL 8, you must have the global CREATE ROLE or CREATE USER privilege. MySQL 8 provides various privileges to attach to roles and users. Refer to https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.0/en/privileges-provided.html for more details on the available privileges.

Now, let's take an example to understand the role creation and privileges assignment. Assume we have a hr_employee table already created in the current database and we want to give access of this table to the hrdepartment role. This dilemma can be resolved by making use of the following code:

CREATE ROLE hrdepartment;
grant all on hr_employee to hrdepartment;

The above code will help us to create the hrdepartment role and grant all the necessary access to it. This topic will be covered in detailed in Chapter 11, Security.

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