Question

I’m trying to set the privileges for two databases at once. I know it is possible to assign them in two statements. Is there a way to do it in one?

I tried

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES 
       ON mydb1.*, mydb2.*
       TO 'reader'@'localhost'
       IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword';

But it only seems to work for one database.

Answer 1

No you can’t, as you can see in the GRANT syntax diagram. Although apparently, you can use the wildcard *.* to apply the grant to all databases, but I wouldn’t do that.