1. A method, comprising: creating one or more fine-grained access control rules that are associated with a base table; creating a materialized query table from the base table without applying the one or more fine-grained access control rules associated with the base table when obtaining data from the base table; turning on a fine-grained access control protection indicator for the materialized query table; and in response to receiving a direct access request to the materialized query table in a query referencing the materialized query table, providing access to the data in the materialized query table by applying one or more fine-grained access control rules associated directly with the materialized query table to the data in the materialized query table before returning the data.