You can create profiles to define resource parameters for groups of users with similar needs instead of defining profiles for each individual user. Then, list the profile in a CREATE or MODIFY USER statement to establish membership in a profile for each user.
Profiles can be based on the primary user types such as those shown in Types of Users, or other factors that group users according to database resource requirements.
Use profiles to specify parameters such as:
- Temporary and spool space allocations
- Accounts
- Password control parameters
- Default database assignment
- Query band
- compute cluster resource policy. See Setting Up Compute Cluster Roles, Compute Profiles, and Compute Groups and Allowing Users Access
The value for a profile attribute supersedes and replaces any corresponding values specified in global defaults, or in a CREATE USER request.