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Understanding users and roles in SQL

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Understanding users and roles in SQL

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- [Instructor] Users and roles are the key to controlling who gets in and what they can do in your SQL database. Imagine users are like individual employees, each with a unique digital identity, such as user IDs, your employee IDs like that. Meanwhile, roles are comparable to the project team, such as they're part of a sales team, marketing team, operations, et cetera. Just as you assign an employee to a project for efficient task management, similarly, in the SQL, you give roles to specific users. For example, to user one, you give the roles of a sales team. For user two, you might give roles of admin. In SQL, a user is a distinct entity that can connect to a database. User have individual identities and credential for authentication. For example, when you have an employee in your team, it has its own user ID and password to log into the database, right? That could be a user. In SQL, a role is a named group of…

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