Database Account |
Enter the name of the account. The name must meet the following requirements:
- The name is up to 16 characters in length for an instance that runs MySQL 5.6, or
up to 32 characters in length for an instance that runs MySQL 5.7 or MySQL 8.0.
- The name starts with a lowercase letter and ends with a lowercase letter or a digit.
- The name contains lowercase letters, digits, or underscores (_).
- The name is unique.
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Account Type |
- Privileged Account: An instance can have only a single privileged account.
Note
- By default, the privileged account has the owner permissions on all the databases
that are created on the instance. You can reset the permissions of the privileged
account. For more information, see Edit permissions of a standard account.
- The privileged account cannot be deleted.
- Standard Account: You can select Standard Account only if you have created a privileged account for your instance. Each instance can
have more than one standard account.
Note
- You must manually grant standard accounts the permissions on databases.
- Standard accounts can be deleted.
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Authorized Databases |
If you set Account Type to Standard Account, you must grant permissions on databases to the standard account.
You can perform the following steps to grant permissions on more than one database
to the standard account:
- In the Unauthorized Databases section, select the databases on which you want to grant permissions to the standard
account.
Note If no databases are created on the instance, create databases before you grant permissions
on databases.
- Click the > icon to add the selected databases to the Authorized Databases: section.
- Grant the permissions on each selected database to the standard account. The following
permission types are supported: Read/Write (DML), Read-only, and Owner.
Note You can use an account to create tables, delete tables, and modify table schemas in
a database only if the account has the Owner permissions on the database.

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Password |
Enter the password of the account. The password must meet the following requirements:
- The password is 8 to 32 characters in length.
- The password contains at least three types of the following characters: uppercase
letters, lowercase letters, digits, and special characters.
- Special characters include ! @ # $ % ^ & * ( ) _ + - =
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Confirm Password |
Enter the password of the account again. |
Description |
Enter a description that can help you identify the account. The description can be
up to 256 characters in length.
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