Friday 18 October 2013

Pattern Based Database GRANT In MySQL

At our workplace, we need to manage database access for different teams and rather than adding another grant on the addition of new database, I've been following a pattern based database access grants in MySQL.

We let different teams work on replicas of same database and hence append the terms such as _dev and _qa as the database prefix. And, we define GRANTS based on these patterns. An example would be something like below:
GRANT ALL ON `%\_dev`.* TO 'user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'password' WITH GRANT OPTION;


I hope this proves useful for some of you guys :)