Why can't you just give permissions to each user to that table? Then you can even grant/deny access to it on a user by user basis...
> -----Original Message----- > From: Dmitry Kuznetsov [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, August 20, 2002 4:43 AM > To: Benjamin Pflugmann > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: How to share a MyISAM table among different databases > > > Benjamin, thanks for the answer! > > There are at least two reasons to have such a common table > shared between > databases, and having it explicitly appear as a regular table > in each of the > DBs: > 1. to make such a table accessible for users, which suppose > to "live" entirely > in their DBs. > 2. to make such a table visible for DBA tools, which cannot > jump from one DB to > another. > > Best, > Dmitry > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Benjamin Pflugmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Dmitry Kuznetsov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 8:03 PM > Subject: Re: How to share a MyISAM table among different databases > > > > Hi. > > > > On Mon 2002-08-19 at 17:29:49 +0200, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Hi, folks! > > > > > > I would apreciate your opinion on my question: > > > How to make a MyISAM table (or several tables) to be > shared among different > > > databases served by one MySQL server on Unix (Solaris)? > It is OK if this > table > > > appears as a read/write table in one database only, other > DBs access it > > > read-only. > > > > > > My experience with tables, being hardlinked to the > different directories > (i.e. > > > databases), is bad, as these tables soon become > corrupted. However, I did > not > > > experiment with softlinks (ln -s). > > > > > > Any ideas? > > > > I think there is no reasonable way to do this. But what is > your reason > > to try this? > > > > Usually I would put the common table within its own database and > > simply use this database in queries, like this: > > > > SELECT * FROM table1 as one, common.table2 as two WHERE > one.whatever = > two.whatever > > > > If that does not fit your case, please elaborate. > > > > Bye, > > > > Benjamin. > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Before posting, please check: > > http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) > > http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) > > > > To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To unsubscribe, e-mail > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php --------------------------------------------------------------------- Before posting, please check: http://www.mysql.com/manual.php (the manual) http://lists.mysql.com/ (the list archive) To request this thread, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To unsubscribe, e-mail <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Trouble unsubscribing? Try: http://lists.mysql.com/php/unsubscribe.php
