When thinking about security within MySQL you should consider a wide range of possible topics and how they might affect the security of your MySQL server and related applications.
All of the following are issues that you should be aware of:
• Access control and security within the database system itself, including the users and databases granted with access to the databases, views and stored programs in use within the database. For more information, see Chapter 3, The MySQL Access Privilege System, Chapter 4, MySQL User Account Management.
• Network security of MySQL and your system. The security is related to the grants for individual users, but you may also wish to re-strict MySQL so that is only available locally, or to a limited set of hosts.
• Security of your application to ensure that SQL injections and other corruption of the data does not occur. See Chapter 1, General Security Issues.
• Ensure that you have adequate and appropriate backups of your database files, configuration and log files. Also be sure that you have a recovery solution in place and test that you are able to successfully recover the information from your backups.
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A significant component of finance literature is concerned with the choice of capital structure. Most of this literature, though, has ignored the associated problem of debt maturity structure. Research that has modeled the choice of debt maturity can be divided into two streams. The first contains papers that relate anticipated interest rate changes and the term structure of interest rates to debt maturity decisions. For example, Morris (1976) explains the maturity structure decision in terms of the correlation between future interest rates and firm net operating income, and Brick and Ravid (1985) rely on tax considerations to argue that the optimal debt maturity is a function of the term structure of interest rates.
Papers in the second stream rely on agency theoretic arguments and asymmetric information to explain debt maturity decisions. For example, Barnea, Haugen, and Senbet (1980) argue that short-term debt acts as a bonding device, resolving the conflict of interest between stockholders and bondholders that arise due to information asymmetry and moral hazard. On the other hand, Flannery (1986) and Diamond (1990), use a signaling framework to explain the debt maturity decision. They focus on the debt maturity decision when firms' cash flows are independently distributed over time.
