Re: How to Prevent Certain Kinds of Joins?

One of the tables contains personally identifiable information (PII) 
(e.g., email, first and last name, etc.). The other contains "click 
stream" data (information about where on our website users have gone). 
In order to be sensitive to users privacy, we don't want to ever (even 
accidentally) run queries that would combine PII and click stream data. 
So we're looking for ways to put "walls" up against combining the data. 
We understand that anyone with ample access to the database can 
deliberately combine the data if they chose to do so in blatent 
violation of our policies. But we want to set something up that would 
put an obstacle or two in the path of anyone who might accidentally run 
such a query.

The ideas about setting up views might work. I guess we'd just have to 
change the permissions of users who have access to the db so that they 
can only use the views and not query the tables directly.

Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 02:51:09PM -0500, Heather Johnson wrote:
> 
> 
>>Is there a way to revoke permission to join two or more tables, even for 
>>users who have all other permissions (e.g., select, insert, update, 
>>delete) on those tables?
> 
> 
> For what purpose?  If this were possible, then users could still
> do joins on the client side if they had access to all the data.
> Are you just trying to prevent potentially large queries?  What
> problem are you trying to solve?
>