GRANT

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Grants a privilege on an securable object to a principal.

Note

Modifying access to the samples catalog is not supported. This catalog is available to all workspaces, but is read-only.

Use GRANT ON SHARE to grant recipients access to shares.

Syntax

GRANT privilege_types ON securable_object TO principal

privilege_types
  { ALL PRIVILEGES |
    privilege_type [, ...] }

Parameters

  • privilege types

    This identifies one or more privileges to be granted to the principal.

    • ALL PRIVILEGES

      Grant all privileges applicable to the securable_object. In Unity Catalog, ALL PRIVILEGES expands to all available privileges at the time permissions checks are made. It does not individually grant all of the applicable privileges at the time of the grant.

    • privilege type

      A specific privilege to be granted on the securable_object to the principal.

  • securable_object

    The object on which the privileges are granted to the principal.

  • principal

    A user, service principal, or group to which the privileges are granted. You must enclose users, service principals, and group names with special characters in backticks (` `).

Examples

> GRANT CREATE ON SCHEMA my_schema TO `alf@melmak.et`;

> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON TABLE forecasts TO finance;

> GRANT SELECT ON TABLE sample_data TO `alf@melmak.et`;