CREATE AUTHORIZATION Examples | Teradata Vantage - Example: Creating a DEFINER Authorization - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2025-11-22
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The following example creates a DEFINER authorization object with the name sales_processing for the user name salesmng and the user password mysecret.

CREATE AUTHORIZATION sales_processing 
AS DEFINER TRUSTED
USER 'salesmng'
PASSWORD 'mysecret';

The database uses this OS platform user context to execute all external routines that contain an EXTERNAL SECURITY DEFINER clause when run under the same OS user authorization independent of the user who runs the routine.