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How to GRANT privilege in MYSQL? in Computer software engineer articles of One day One Thing to Know
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To check users and their priviliage's 
SELECT `host`,`user`,`Grant_priv` FROM mysql.user;



If Grand_priv is 'Y' then the user can grand priviliages to other users. Otherwise 'N' means not.

Grant Priviliage's 
GRANT ALL ON `db_name`.`table_name` TO 'user_name'@'host_name' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';

* db_name
       - to put which database can access by the user. If putting * means all db's can accessible by the user

* table_name
       - to which table can access by the user. otherwise * means all tables in the db can accessible.

* user_name
       - which user going to get this permissions

* host_name
       - Which host is accessible by the user.

Examples
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO `root`@`%` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';
GRANT ALL ON *.* TO `root`@`localhost` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';
GRANT ALL ON `user_management`.* TO `root`@`%` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';
GRANT ALL ON `user_management`.`user_info` TO `root`@`%` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';

Show Granted Priviliage's 
SHOW GRANTS FOR `user_name`@`host_name`;

Examples
SHOW GRANTS FOR `root`@`localhost`;
SHOW GRANTS FOR `root`@`%`;

Drop/Revoke Grant Priviliage's in MYSQL 
REVOKE ALL ON *.* FROM `root`@`%` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';
REVOKE ALL ON *.* FROM `root`@`localhost` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';
REVOKE ALL ON `user_management`.* FROM `root`@`%` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';
REVOKE ALL ON `user_management`.`user_info` FROM `root`@`%` IDENTIFIED BY 'pass123';
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