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Privilege

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˈprɪvəlɪdʒ/nounCommon term

In software engineering, privilege means: A permission that allows a database user or role to do a specific action, such as reading a table, inserting rows or creating new objects.

In Turkish: yetki, ayrıcalık

How it is used

Privileges are granted and revoked with GRANT and REVOKE. Good practice follows the principle of least privilege: each user gets only what it needs, and applications never connect as a superuser. 'Insufficient privileges' and 'permission denied' are common error messages.

Example sentences

  1. The app user has no DELETE privilege on the audit tables.

  2. Following the principle of least privilege, the analytics account can only read.

Common collocations

  • grant a privilege
  • revoke a privilege
  • least privilege
  • insufficient privileges
  • admin privileges
  • grantTo give a database user or role permission to do something, using the SQL GRANT statement; REVOKE takes the permission away again.
  • 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.
  • SQL injectionAn attack in which someone types SQL code into a form or URL so that the database runs it, which can expose or delete data.

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