Give user permission to drop and create specific databases - mysql

Question

This question refers to MySQL and/or MariaDB specifically.
Is it possible to permit certain users to drop/create one (or more) specific databases, but not all databases? By this, I do not mean how to give users all privileges for certain specific databases with a query like:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `example-db`.* TO 'example-user'#'localhost';
I've found some methods on how to do this for MSSQL here and a similar post for PostgreSQL.

Answer 1

grant privileges separately for a user account in MySQL.
When specifying the database name and table name, separate them with a. (period) and no spaces. This will give the root user fine-grain control over certain data.
Also, replace the PERMISSION_TYPE value with the kind of access you want to grant to your new user account.
Here are the most used commands in MySQL:
CREATE — enable users to create a database or table
SELECT — permit users to retrieve data
INSERT — let users add new entries in tables
UPDATE — allow users to modify existing entries in tables
DELETE — enable users to erase table entries
DROP — let users delete entire database tables
NOTE: Using the ALL PRIVILEGES permission type from before will allow
all of the permissions listed above.
To use any of these options, simply replace PERMISSION_TYPE with the appropriate keyword. To apply multiple privileges, separate them with a comma. For example, we can assign CREATE and SELECT to our non-root MySQL user account with this command:
GRANT CREATE, SELECT ON * . * TO 'user_name'#'localhost';
Sometimes, you might come across a situation where you need to revoke given privileges from a user. You can do so by entering:
REVOKE PERMISSION_TYPE ON database_name.table_name FROM ‘user_name’#‘localhost’;
For example, to withdraw all privileges for our non-root user we should use:
REVOKE ALL PRIVILEGES ON * . * FROM 'user_name'#'localhost';
Finally, you can entirely delete an existing user account by using the following command:
DROP USER ‘user_name’#‘localhost’;
Don't forget to FLUSH PRIVILEGES;
In order to find what privileges have already been granted to a MySQL user, you can use the SHOW GRANTS command:
SHOW GRANTS FOR 'user_name'#'localhost';

Answer 2

Let’s start by making a new user within the MySQL shell:
CREATE USER 'newuser'#'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'password';
To provide a specific user with permission, you can use this framework:
GRANT type_of_permission ON database_name.table_name TO 'username'#'localhost'
Once you have finalized the permissions that you want to set up for your new users, always be sure to reload all the privileges.
FLUSH PRIVILEGES;