CREATE ROLE

Description

Creates a role. After a role is created, you can grant privileges to the role and then assign this role to a user or another role. This way, the privileges associated with this role are passed on to users or roles.

Only users with the user_admin role or the GRANT privilege can create a role.

Syntax

CREATE ROLE <role_name>

Parameters

role_name: the name of the role. Naming conventions:

• It can only contain digits (0-9), letters, or underscores (_) and must start with a letter.
• It cannot exceed 64 characters in length.

Note that the created role name cannot be the same as system-defined roles.

Examples

Create a role.

CREATE ROLE role1;

References

• GRANT
• SHOW ROLES
• DROP ROLE