Roles (PDM)

A role is a predefined profile that can be assigned to users, or roles in those DBMS that support this concept. Roles are reverse engineered in your model and you can also create user-defined roles.

Roles may have:

privileges that control their level of access (see Granting system privileges)
permissions that allow them to perform actions on objects (see Granting object permissions)

Creating a Role
You can create a role in any of the following ways:
Role Properties
You can modify an object's properties from its property sheet. To open a role property sheet, double-click its Browser entry in the Roles folder. The following sections detail the property sheet tabs that contain the properties most commonly entered for roles.
Assigning a User to a Role
Once you have created a role, you can assign users to it.

Parent topic: Building a Database Access Structure

Created October 7, 2009. Send feedback on this help topic to Sybase Technical Publications: pubs@sybase.com