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Grant

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ɡrænt/verbCommon term

In software engineering, grant means: To give a database user or role permission to do something, using the SQL GRANT statement; REVOKE takes the permission away again.

In Turkish: yetki vermek, izin tanımak

How it is used

Typical forms: GRANT SELECT ON orders TO report_user; GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE shop TO app_admin. In conversation, people 'grant access', 'grant read-only access' or 'get access granted'. GRANT and REVOKE are often grouped as DCL (data control language).

Example sentences

  1. Can you grant me read-only access to the staging database?

  2. We grant privileges to roles, never directly to individual users.

Common collocations

  • grant access
  • grant read-only access
  • GRANT SELECT ON
  • grant and revoke
  • privilegeA permission that allows a database user or role to do a specific action, such as reading a table, inserting rows or creating new objects.
  • roleA named set of database privileges that can be given to many users at once, such as read_only or app_writer, to make permission management simpler.
  • DBADatabase administrator: the person responsible for installing, securing, backing up, tuning and keeping a company's databases running.
  • DDLData definition language: the SQL statements that create, change and remove database objects, such as CREATE, ALTER and DROP.

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