Oracle: control access to data through views? - sql

I have a problem with controling access to data in a database. The data is a mix of price-data from my company and price-data bought from a data-provider and since they charge per user who can access their data I need to be able to limit the access to data.
I have a scheme "DATA" which holds all price-data. I am thinking having 2 additional schemes (example: LIM_ACCESS and FULL_ACCESS) with VIEWS that is build on the DATA-scheme. example:
CREATE VIEW LIM_ACCESS.V_PRICES AS<br>
SELECT [] FROM DATA.PRICES<br>
WHERE SOURCE = [MyCompany]
CREATE VIEW FULL_ACCESS.V_PRICES AS<br>
SELECT [] FROM DATA.PRICES
But to my experience then the LIM_ACCESS- and FULL_ACCESS-schemes has to have select-privelige on the DATA-tables to create the views and then I am back to square 1.
Being a novice in databases I feel there must be a relative simple solution to this so any advice or hint(if this question has been asked and answered before) is appreciated :-)
Kind Regards,
Svend

You can put all the views in your DATA schema. Then GRANT SELECT on them to other schemas as necessary, ideally via database roles as Woot4Moo suggested.

The use of a view will not prevent a subset of users from accessing the data. What you need to do is implement row level security.
Another approach is to use some form of role based permissions, that enable only the specific group of users you want to access the "paid" information. This can be done fairly trivially example follows.
create user foo
identified by password;
--no permissions
create role paid_data;
--grant privileges here for the paid_data role
grant paid_data to foo
User foo will now have the permissions that the paid_data role has. The advantage of using roles like this is that you can quickly revoke everyone's access that is in that group / add more accesses as they need to be incorporated.

As GriffeyDog suggested, this is the best way to do it. First create two views in your schema and then grant select on those views to the two users.
CREATE VIEW LIM_ACCESS_V_PRICES AS<br>
SELECT [] FROM DATA.PRICES<br>
WHERE SOURCE = [MyCompany];
GRANT SELECT ON LIM_ACCESS_V_PRICES TO LIM_ACCESS;
CREATE VIEW FULL_ACCESS_V_PRICES AS<br>
SELECT [] FROM DATA.PRICES;
GRANT SELECT ON FULL_ACCESS_V_PRICES TO FULL_ACCESS;

Another approach is to use Oracle Row Level Security otherwise known as Oracle Label Security. I've used this to greatly simplify my application design while ensuring users only see the data they're allowed to see.

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Checking if a user has the required permission in snowflake to create and write into a table

I was using node.js to work on snowflake datawarehouse as a destination for users. I wanted to check if a user has the required permission level on the schema to create a table and write into it before adding the user to the database otherwise it should give an error saying that the user does not have the appropriate permission level. How can I achieve that programatically?
Thanks,
one way you could do is check if the role has SEELCT privilege on the table by looking into the view TABLE_PRIVILEGES in information_schema schema.
select * from information_schema.TABLE_PRIVILEGES where table_name = 'SALES_RAW'
Due to how permissions can be inherited through the role hierarchy, this isn't easy to do. Permissions aren't assigned to users in Snowflake, they are assigned to roles. You could use the table_privileges in the information schema (as Himanshu said). You'll need to ask your admin for privileges to the information_schema schema in the databsae:
You could probably use some combination of these too:
show grants to user [username]
with
show grants on schema [schema name]
The easiest way would be to have your app / script / service assume the same role as the user and see if you can select from a table in the schema or try to create a temporary table in the schema. If you receive an error code, the user doesn't have permissions!

Grant access to select from one table, but not access to underlying tables?

I want to create a view of a large accounts database and give access to this view to a specific user. However, I don't want that user to be able to access the underlying database and tables.
So, a view called 'db1.dbo.myview' which contains 'select acctid, onstop from accounts.dbo.customers'. Allow the user to select from db1.dbo.myview, but not anything from the 'accounts' database.
Is this possible?
From searching on the web it seems I need to create a stored procedure, sign it with a certificate, create users from the certificate, etc. A whole nightmare.
You should just be able to do this:
grant select on dbo.myview to myuser

User/Role can Create table or view, but not select from it SQL Server 2008 - Ownership not passing to creator

I'm trying to create a role to give a few users permission to create and alter views, procedures and tables.
I don't want these users to be able to select from/update/delete/alter etc. any table in the database, there are tables we want to keep control of - but they should have full permissions on any objects they create.
I've given the users permissions to create views etc. and that works fine, but they can't then select from views they then create. Is it possible to do this?
-- ADDED 25/july/2013
Example:
An example user Mike has specific permissions granted on a handful of tables. All Grant, no Deny.
No other database level permissions beyond "connect"
Plus is a member of public (not altered - no denys), plus 3 other roles we have set up
Role: Standard_Reader
Specific Select permissions on a number of tables. All Grant, no Deny.
No other database level permissions
Role: SensitiveDemographicsReader
Specific Select permissions on sensitive tables. All Grant, no Deny
Role: Analyst
No Specific securables
Database level permissions:
Create Function
Create Procedure
Create Table
Create View
This user can create a table or view, but once created, can't select from it.
Is it possible to set up SQL server so that whenever a user user creates a table or view they then have permissions to select from it (assuming they have permissions on underlying tables in view)
-- EDIT
After some investigation it has become apparent that for some reason in our database, ownership of objects is not acruing to their creators.
Found using this code
select so.name, su.name, so.crdate from sysobjects so join sysusers su on so.uid = su.uid
order by so.crdate
All owners, with a couple of exceptions are DBO.
I can't understand why ownership is not passing to the creators of objects. Any idea what could cause this?
Sounds like what you're using to deny them in the first place is overriding the default settings. Can you post more information on what permissions the users have?
Can't comment :(
I would comment but lack privileges; have you taken a look at MySQL table permissions? It's a rather good system.
you need to grant SELECT on the schema to user/group:
GRANT SELECT ON SCHEMA::dbo TO User/Group;

what is the aim of create schema

I use Schema in my database only for grouping tables, views, stored procedure, functions and other object by subject, and I dont realy know where schema must be used, and why schema tab is below security tab in SSMS.
EDIT :
Schemata are a way to logically group objects so that consistent permissions can be applied to all of them through the schema rather than individually. Consider:
create schema [foo] authorization [dbo]
grant select on schema::[foo] to [user1]
create table [foo].[table_1] (...)
create table [foo].[table_2] (...)
create table [foo].[table_3] (...)
By placing all of the tables in one schema, I was able to grant permission at the schema level and that notion of permission trickled down to all of the tables contained therein.
i think this placement is because of mapping between security of users (roles and users) and schemas. not data structure of schema, like tables and columns and so on.
if you go to security tab -> Users-> double click on on of the users. you find that you can edit mapping between that user and owned or role membership of SCHEMAs.
im hopeful to be useful for u.

How to prevent database user deleting data from ALL tables by triggers

Hi Experts
How I can prevent database user deleting any data in tables using triggers?
I want just Admin delete Data from tables
Thanks
Umm take away that users permission? If you don't want them doing something, 'disallow' them that right... thats why we have permissions.
Here are details on how to revoke permissions:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms186308.aspx
Any particular reason you want to use triggers?
You could simply remove the DELETE permission from the users you want to restrict. Have a look at the "Permissions" section here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms189835.aspx
EDIT: Since you say you do want to use triggers (but I really think you should reconsider) you can create a table such as:
CREATE TABLE Restricted_Users
(
user_name VARCHAR(40) PRIMARY_KEY -- Use a size appropriate to your requirements
)
Create INSTEAD OF DELETE triggers on all your tables (that's going to be a chore) which checks for the USER_NAME() in the Restricted_Users table and if they EXIST you can call RAISERROR to cause the transaction to be rolled back and display a message to the user.
Remember you will have to maintain these triggers on all new tables added to the database as well as maintaining the list of users in the Restricted_Users table whenever you add/remove users from the database.
It would be a lot simpler to use the permission system available in SQL Server (it's what it's designed for) using roles with appropriate permissions set for the tables. Then, when adding new users you only have to assign them to the appropriate role and the delete permissions are handled for you.