Jan Sorenson (10/19/2012)
Is it possible to grant access to specific columns in a table with restriction to the data with a where clause? Similar to building a view but doing it through Grant.
Are you asking if you can use permissions to prevent somebody from viewing a column based on the contents? Like allow somebody to view some rows but not others because the contents in the row are not allowed? Or do you mean to allow someone to see all the rows but only the contents of some columns based on the contents?
Either way, there is a way to do that, you identified it already, a view.
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