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title: Owner Concept
description: Understand object ownership in Enterprise Analytics and how owners
  automatically receive privileges to manage their objects.
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# Owner Concept

> Understand object ownership in Enterprise Analytics and how owners automatically receive privileges to manage their objects. 

Enterprise Analytics uses the concept of an `OWNER` to manage object ownership and associated privileges. An `OWNER` is a user who creates an object in the system, such as a database, collection, view, function, or other entities.

When a user creates an object, the user is granted the `OWNERSHIP` privilege implicitly. This information is stored in the `Metadata`.`Privilege` collection.

### [](#object-privileges-table)Implicit Privileges

The following table shows the implicit privileges granted to owners for each object type:

__Table 1\. Implicit Privileges__
| Object Type | Implicit Privileges                                  |
| ----------- | ---------------------------------------------------- |
| Database    | DROP                                                 |
| Scope       | DROP                                                 |
| Collection  | SELECT, INSERT, UPSERT, DELETE, ALTER, DROP, ANALYZE |
| Index       | DROP                                                 |
| Link        | CONNECT, DISCONNECT, COPY TO, COPY FROM, DROP, ALTER |
| Role        | DROP                                                 |
| Synonym     | DROP                                                 |
| Function    | DROP, EXECUTE                                        |
| View        | SELECT, DROP                                         |