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Foil 49 What are Roles?

From Full Relational Database HPDC-4 Presentation HPDC-4 Tutorial/CPS616 Spring95 -- August 1, Pentagon City Virginia. by Gang Cheng Marek Podgorny (Geoffrey Fox) * See also color IMAGE

A way to classify level of database users. Like sysadm usually has superuser privileges, roles are used to group users with different privileges.
Because a DBMS system has many levels of operations which set many levels(kinds) of operation privilages,
Role is another logical level of grouping to define/specify who will have what system privileges.
It makes system management easier and more flexible.


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