MySQL grant all privileges to database except one table

Question

I\'ve been unable to find a reasonable solution to achieve the following:

I wish to have a user that has ALL privileges on a database (or series of databases with th

Answer 1

I know this is an old post, but I thought I'd add on to @tdammers question for others to see. You can also perform a SELECT CONCAT on information_schema.tables to create your grant commands, and not have to write a separate script.

First revoke all privileges from that db:

REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON db.* FROM user@localhost;  

Then create your GRANT statements:

SELECT CONCAT("GRANT UPDATE ON db.", table_name, " TO user@localhost;")
FROM information_schema.TABLES
WHERE table_schema = "YourDB" AND table_name <> "table_to_skip";

Copy and paste the results into your MySQL client and run them all.