Managing permissions for multiple users to Create and Drop tables

Started by Dave Hughesalmost 7 years ago1 messagesgeneral
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#1Dave Hughes
dhughes20@gmail.com

We have one database with several schemas. We have several groups of
developers that have the need to be able to collaborate including creating
and dropping tables.

I noticed it became difficult to manage because when one developer creates
a table, he is now the owner. All the other developers need to be given
permissions to select from (or drop) those tables he created. I was
looking for a way to where all members of a group can select from
everybody’s tables, drop them if needed, etc. Where they can all work
collaboratively.

I found this site that had a suggestion:
https://blog.hagander.net/setting-owner-at-create-table-237/
You basically create a “common_role” as the table owner and grant all the
users access to tables owned by common_role. However, for this to work
automatically, you need to create an event trigger so that each time a
developer creates a table, it alters the table owner after the table is
created.

I was wonder how other DBA’s handle this permission issue for collaborative
environments? Any best practices or advise?