USER_PRIVILEGES

The USER_PRIVILEGES table provides information about global privileges. This information comes from the mysql.user system table:

USE INFORMATION_SCHEMA;
DESC USER_PRIVILEGES;

The output is as follows:

+----------------+--------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| Field          | Type         | Null | Key  | Default | Extra |
+----------------+--------------+------+------+---------+-------+
| GRANTEE        | varchar(81)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| TABLE_CATALOG  | varchar(512) | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| PRIVILEGE_TYPE | varchar(64)  | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
| IS_GRANTABLE   | varchar(3)   | YES  |      | NULL    |       |
+----------------+--------------+------+------+---------+-------+
4 rows in set (0.00 sec)

View the information in the USER_PRIVILEGES table:

SELECT * FROM USER_PRIVILEGES;

The output is as follows:

+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
| GRANTEE    | TABLE_CATALOG | PRIVILEGE_TYPE          | IS_GRANTABLE |
+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
| 'root'@'%' | def           | SELECT                  | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | INSERT                  | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | UPDATE                  | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | DELETE                  | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | CREATE                  | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | DROP                    | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | PROCESS                 | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | REFERENCES              | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | ALTER                   | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | SHOW DATABASES          | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | SUPER                   | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | EXECUTE                 | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | INDEX                   | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | CREATE USER             | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | CREATE TABLESPACE       | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | TRIGGER                 | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | CREATE VIEW             | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | SHOW VIEW               | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | CREATE ROLE             | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | DROP ROLE               | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | CREATE TEMPORARY TABLES | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | LOCK TABLES             | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | CREATE ROUTINE          | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | ALTER ROUTINE           | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | EVENT                   | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | RELOAD                  | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | FILE                    | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | REPLICATION CLIENT      | YES          |
| 'root'@'%' | def           | REPLICATION SLAVE       | YES          |
+------------+---------------+-------------------------+--------------+
29 rows in set (0.00 sec)

Fields in the USER_PRIVILEGES table are described as follows:

• GRANTEE: The name of the granted user, which is in the format of 'user_name'@'host_name'.
• TABLE_CATALOG: The name of the catalog to which the table belongs. This value is always def.
• PRIVILEGE_TYPE: The privilege type to be granted. Only one privilege type is shown in each row.
• IS_GRANTABLE: If you have the GRANT OPTION privilege, the value is YES; otherwise, the value is NO.