RE: Views and Tables

  • From: Chris Stephens <ChrisStephens@xxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2004 15:45:08 -0600

Maybe...but wouldn't you get the added benefit of partition
elimination....and you wouldn't have to worry about any security flaws you
might not have thought (none in mind).

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephane Faroult [mailto:sfaroult@xxxxxxxxxx] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:36 PM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Views and Tables

That's using a power hammer to prepare powder sugar.
The initial mistake is to create the views not under the reporting user,
but the schema owner - and GRANT SELECT on the views, and the views
only, to the reporting user.

SF


Chris Stephens wrote:
> 
> Have you looked into row level security?
> 
> ...i think that would be ideal and easy to implement.
> 
> Chris
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mkline1@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:mkline1@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 09, 2004 3:18 PM
> To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Views and Tables
> 
> Client has quite a few partitioned tables. Users are starting to want to
> query the actual tables, but we've got to keep them from queries that
might
> combine multiple partitions.
> 
> We can probably create some "this_month", "last_month" views under a
> reporting user id, but if the views can select the tables, then if the
user
> is cleaver enough, they too may find they can get to the tables.
> 
> Is there a way to let them see the views but hide the table names from
them?
> 
> I figure one of the table views will give it all away.
> 
> We do monitor with Precise, but still.
> 
> This is 8.1.7.4 on HP-UX.
> 
> --
> Michael Kline
> B2Bsol
> Midlothian, VA  23112
> 804-744-1545
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