Security policy management for database

A computer program product comprising:

• one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to obtain a plurality of security policies for managing security of a database, the security policies defining respective sets of items to be monitored;
• program instructions to store, respectively, the sets of items defined by the plurality of security policies in one or more item tables based on a predetermined criterion, the predetermined criterion comprising security policy relevance, security policy structure, and available space in the one or more item tables;
• program instructions to create, for each of the one or more item tables, one or more respective index tables associated with the items in the respective item table;
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• program instructions to create, for each of the one or more item tables, a fast traverse block (FTB) associated with the created one or more respective index tables.

A computer system comprising:

• one or more computer processors, one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions collectively stored on the one or more computer readable storage media for execution by at least one of the one or more computer processors, the program instructions comprising:
• program instructions to obtain a plurality of security policies for managing security of a database, the security policies defining respective sets of items to be monitored;
• program instructions to store, respectively, the sets of items defined by the plurality of security policies in one or more item tables based on a predetermined criterion, the predetermined criterion comprising security policy relevance, security policy structure, and available space in the one or more item tables;
• program instructions to create, for each of the one or more item tables, one or more respective index tables associated with the items in the respective item table;
• and
• program instructions to create, for each of the one or more item tables, a fast traverse block (FTB) associated with the created one or more respective index tables.