Have you had the pleasure of blowing young minds by revealing that production-grade databases come with fully fledged authnz systems that you can just...use right out of the box?
Databases have pretty robust access controls to limit (a sql user's) access to tables, schemas, etc. Basic controls like being able to read but not write, and more advanced situations like being able to access data through a view or stored procedure without having direct access to the underlying tables.
Those features aren't used often in modern app development where one app owns the database and any external access is routed through an API. They were much more commonly used in old school apps enterprise apps where many different teams and apps would all directly access a single db.