User ID, Group and Permissions Information in System Tables

The following table summarizes the system tables containing information about user IDs, groups, and permissions.

All tables and views are owned by user ID SYS, and so their qualified names are SYS.SYSUSERPERM and so on.

Appropriate SELECT queries on these tables generate all the user ID and permission information stored in the database.

Table

Default

Contents

SYSUSERPERM

DBA only

Database-level permissions and password for each user ID

SYSGROUP

PUBLIC

One row for each member of each group

SYSTABLEPERM

PUBLIC

All permissions on table given by the GRANT commands

SYSCOLPERM

PUBLIC

All columns with UPDATE permission given by the GRANT command

SYSPROCPERM

PUBLIC

Each row holds one user granted permission to use one procedure