24.3.23 The INFORMATION_SCHEMA SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES Table

The SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES table provides information about schema (database) privileges. It takes its values from the mysql.db system table.

The SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES table has these columns:

GRANTEE

The name of the account to which the privilege is granted, in 'user_name'@'host_name' format.
TABLE_CATALOG

The name of the catalog to which the schema belongs. This value is always def.
TABLE_SCHEMA

The name of the schema.
PRIVILEGE_TYPE

The privilege granted. The value can be any privilege that can be granted at the schema level; see Section 13.7.1.4, “GRANT Statement”. Each row lists a single privilege, so there is one row per schema privilege held by the grantee.
IS_GRANTABLE

YES if the user has the GRANT OPTION privilege, NO otherwise. The output does not list GRANT OPTION as a separate row with PRIVILEGE_TYPE='GRANT OPTION'.

The following statements are not equivalent:

SELECT ... FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.SCHEMA_PRIVILEGES

SHOW GRANTS ...