MySQL User Account Management - 12.2.5 Specifying Resource Limits

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By default, there is no limit on the number of times that a client can connect to the server or the number of queries it can issue. If that is not suitable, GRANT can establish limits on an account's resource consumption for the following characteristics:

• The number of times per hour the account is allowed to connect to the server

• The number of queries per hour the account is allowed to issue

• The number of updates per hour the account is allowed to issue

Each of these resource limits is specified using an option in a WITH clause. The following example creates an account that can use the test database, but can connect to the server a maximum of only 10 times per hour. The account can issue 50 queries per hour, and at most 20 of those queries can modify data:

GRANT ALL ON test.* TO 'quinn'@'localhost'

IDENTIFIED BY 'SomePass'
WITH MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 10
MAX_QUERIES_PER_HOUR 50
MAX_UPDATES_PER_HOUR 20;

The order in which you name the options in the WITH clause doesn't matter.

To reset an existing limit to the default of no limit, specify a value of zero. For example:

GRANT USAGE ON *.* TO 'quinn'@'localhost'
WITH MAX_CONNECTIONS_PER_HOUR 0;

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