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Use

The ALTER USERGROUP statement ( alter_usergroup_statement) changes the properties assigned to a user group.

Structure
            
<alter_usergroup_statement>::=
  ALTER USERGROUP <usergroup_name>
    [<usergroup_mode>]
    [TIMEOUT <unsigned_integer> | TIMEOUT NULL]
    [COSTLIMIT <unsigned_integer> | COSTLIMIT NULL]
    [DEFAULT ROLE ALL [EXCEPT <role_name>]
| DEFAULT ROLE NONE
| DEFAULT ROLE <role_name>]
    [[NOT] EXCLUSIVE]
    [DEFAULTCODE <ascii_or_unicode>]
    [<connect_mode>]

<usergroup_mode>::=
  RESOURCE
| STANDARD

<ascii_or_unicode>::=
  ASCII
| UNICODE

<connect_mode>::=
  ENABLE CONNECT
| DISABLE CONNECT

Explanation

At least one of the optional clauses must be specified. The specified user group must be a defined user group.

The current database user must have the right of ownership for the user group for which the properties are to be changed. The members of the specified user group must not be logged onto the database system when the ALTER USERGROUP statement is executed.

usergroup_mode RESOURCE | STANDARD

You use  usergroup_mode to specify a database user class for this user group.

Table 1: Database User Classes (User Mode)

Database User Class

Properties

DBA

Database administrators

Users belonging to this class can:

  • Create RESOURCE and STANDARD database users

  • Create database objects

  • Grant all or part of the privileges for their database objects to other database users

RESOURCE

Users belonging to this class can:

  • Define data

  • Create database procedures

  • Grant privileges for their database objects to other database users

STANDARD

Users belonging to this class can:

  • Access data and database procedures for which they have been granted the necessary privileges

  • Define view tables, synonyms, and temporary tables

  • RESOURCE: This specification means that the user group is to be assigned to the database user class RESOURCE.

  • STANDARD: This specification means that the user group will have its current database user class withdrawn and will lose the right to hold its own data. All existing base tables created by the user group are deleted.

  • No database user class: If a database user class has not been specified, the database user class of the user group remains unchanged.

TIMEOUT

The timeout value is specified in seconds and must be between 30 and 32400. Only the database system administrator can define database users with the timeout value 0.

If the NULL value is specified, the value defined previously is canceled.

COSTLIMIT

This specification limits costs by preventing specified database users from executing QUERY statements or INSERT statements in the form of INSERT...SELECT... beyond a specified degree of complexity, which would otherwise be cost-intensive. COSTLIMIT specifies the estimated SELECT cost value beyond which the SQL statement is not executed.

Before these SQL statements are executed, the costs expected to result from this statement are estimated. This SELECT cost estimate can be output using the EXPLAIN statement. In interactive mode, the estimated SELECT cost value is compared with the COSTLIMIT value specified for the database user. The COSTLIMIT value is ignored with QUERY statements or INSERT statements of the form INSERT...SELECT... that are embedded in a programming language.

If the NULL value is specified, the value defined previously is canceled.

DEFAULT ROLE

DEFAULT ROLE defines which of the roles assigned to the database user/user group is activated automatically when a database session is opened.

  • ALL: All roles assigned to the database user/user group are activated when a session is opened. EXCEPT can be used to exclude specified roles from activation.

  • NONE: None of the roles are active when a database session is opened by a database user/member of a database user group.

  • Role name specified: The roles specified here must exist and be assigned to the database user/user group. They are activated automatically when a database session is opened for a database user/member of a database user group.

[NOT] EXCLUSIVE

If the EXCLUSIVE syntax rule is not specified, NOT EXCLUSIVE is assumed implicitly.

  • EXCLUSIVE: This prevents the specified database user from opening two different database sessions simultaneously.

  • NOT EXCLUSIVE: Allows the database user to open several database sessions simultaneously.

DEFAULTCODE

The value of the special database parameter DefaultCodePage is overridden with the code attribute ASCII or UNICODE specified in syntax rule DEFAULTCODE <ascii_or_unicode> for objects of the specified database user.

ENABLE CONNECT, DISABLE CONNECT

You can use connect_mode to define whether a database user can open database sessions. For CREATE USERGROUP statement this is only valid however if CONNECT mode ( connect_mode) is not specified in the CREATE USER statement.

If CONNECT mode is not specified, ENABLE CONNECT is implicitly assumed. ENABLE and DISABLE cannot both be specified at the same time.

  • ENABLE CONNECT: The database user (members of the database user group) can open database sessions.

  • DISABLE CONNECT: The database user (members of the database user group) cannot open database sessions. ALTER USER|USERGROUP statement: The database sessions of the specified database user (members of the specified database user group) are terminated. You can enable the individual members of a database user group to open database sessions again using the ALTER USER statement.

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