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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 31, 2012
Filed:
Jan. 11, 2008
Paul Miller Bird, Markham, CA;
Yao-ching Stephen Chen, Saratoga, CA;
George Gerald Kiernan, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Ian Logan, Don Mills, CA;
Allen William Luniewski, Cupertino, CA (US);
Walid Rjaibi, Markham, CA (US);
Paul Miller Bird, Markham, CA;
Yao-Ching Stephen Chen, Saratoga, CA;
George Gerald Kiernan, San Jose, CA (US);
Scott Ian Logan, Don Mills, CA;
Allen William Luniewski, Cupertino, CA (US);
Walid Rjaibi, Markham, CA (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
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.