Defining the Default Role for a User - Teradata Database - Teradata Vantage NewSQL Engine

To ensure that role privileges are available to users at log on, you must define a default role for each user that is a member of one or more roles. If you do not specify a default role, the user must employ the SET ROLE statement to select the operant role. For example:

SET ROLE  role_name;

or

SET ROLE ALL;

You can also use the SET ROLE statement to change from one role to another role within a session.

To ensure that the user is operating with the appropriate role, specify the default role for a user as follows

1. From the client program of your choice, log on to Teradata Database as user DBADMIN.
2. Modify the user, for example:

   MODIFY USER "GenUser1" AS
   STARTUP = ''
   DEFAULT DATABASE = "Personnel_Views"
   NO BEFORE JOURNAL
   NO AFTER JOURNAL
   COLLATION = HOST
   DEFAULT CHARACTER SET LATIN
   DATEFORM=INTEGERDATE
   TIME ZONE=NULL
   DEFAULT ROLE="Role_GenUser_2";