Wildcard in CREATE grant in MySQL MySQL allows the use of wildcards for database names, in order to allow an user to operate only on a subset of databases:

GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON `foobar%`.* TO 'user'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'somepassword';


Is there a way to do the same for the CREATE grant, to allow (cf. the example above) user to create only databases whose name starts with foobar?

Otherwise said: is the CREATE grant global (i.e. an user with this privilege is allowed to create any database, without limitations) or it can be limited in some way?
Yes. Just add the CREATE privilege:

GRANT CREATE ON `foobar%`.* TO 'foobaruser'@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'foobarpass';


And just test it:

foobaruser$ mysql
mysql&gt; create database `foobar_one`;
Query OK, 1 row affected (0.00 sec)

mysql&gt; create database `barfoo_one`;
ERROR 1044 (42000): Access denied for user 'foobaruser'@'localhost' to database 'barfoo_one'


Be aware that you need to escape the _ (underscore), as it acts like one character in the pattern. So «`foobar_`» will match foobar1 or foobarZ.