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Group permissions

Group permissions

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Group permissions

- [Instructor] Just like you can use schemas to group multiple tables together, you can group multiple individual users together as well. This makes managing permissions easier when the responsibilities of your users fall into distinct categories. When you think about your own organization or business, you probably have different departments that handle separate aspects of the business. You might have a shipping department, and a customer service department, and a marketing department. Each of these departments would have their own group of dedicated employees, but each department's employees all require access to the same set of tables within the database. You can follow the same departmental model when setting up your user access permissions. Each database user gets their own unique username and password login account. You can then create a single group role account for each department. Next, each individual user gets…

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