International Business Machines Corporation

George Gerald Kiernan

Paul Miller Bird

Yao-Ching Stephen Chen

Walid Rjaibi

Allen William Luniewski

Scott Ian Logan

A method and system for controlling access to data stored in a table of a database are provided. The method includes marking the table of the database as being protected with fine-grained access control (FGAC), creating a system authorization class for the table of the database, the system authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the system authorization class being unmodifiable, creating a user authorization class for the table of the database, the user authorization class having a default row authorization that prevents access to all rows in the table, the user authorization class being modifiable, and associating the system authorization class and the user authorization class with the table of the database.

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George Gerald Kiernan