Patent ID: 6516317
Filing Date: 2003-02-04
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method for facilitating compartmentalized user management in a database system, wherein the database system is compartmentalized into a plurality of domains that are insulated from each other, so that a given user that has access to data within an associated domain does not have access to data in other domains, the method comprising:receiving a request from a database administrator to perform an operation on a user identifier within the database system, identifying a domain that the user identifier is associated with in the database system; determining whether the database administrator is authorized to modify user identifiers associated with the domain; if the database administrator is authorized to modify the user identifiers associated with the domain, performing the operation by modifying an entry the user identifier within a user table in the database system, wherein the user table includes an entry for each user identifier defined within the database system.