Grant Tables and Views privileges in Oracle SQL

Question

So I know how to grant privileges on tables:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON table TO person;

But I was told to grant privileges to 'person' for all tables and views and I was wondering if the above code also grants privileges for views as well or is there another way to do that?

Thanks a ton!

Answer 1

The same code also can be used for views and even stored procedures. Commonly you would want access to update data in a table:

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE ON table TO person;

just SELECT on a view:

GRANT SELECT ON view TO person;

and EXECUTE on a procedure:

GRANT EXECUTE ON proc TO person;

There is some nuance in that. For instance, you can have updatable views (or views with triggers), and you may choose to assign only select and/or insert access to table.