How can I restrict a MySQL user to a particular tables

Assuming the user has no current privileges, you can do the following

GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE ON db_Payroll.tb_Users TO RestrictedUser@'%'GRANT SELECT, INSERT, DELETE ON db_Payroll.tb_Employees TO RestrictedUser@'%'

Depending on exactly which privileges you wish to grant the user, you can change SELECT, INSERT, DELETE to something else, e.g. ALL PRIVILEGES.

Afterwards, remember to flush the privileges so they become effective by running

FLUSH PRIVILEGES;

You can grant access to individual tables by running:

GRANT ALL ON db_Payroll.tb_Users to RestrictedUser@RestrictedHostName;

And similarly for other tables. Use a list of operations instead of ALL if appropriate.

You cannot grant access to individual tables which do not exist yet without granting access to all tables.

Assuming the user has no current privileges, if you have a lot of tables and you only want to give the user access to a few of those tables, the simplest work-around I know of is using a technique I personally refer to as QueryCeption™ (Query Within a Query):

SELECT GROUP_CONCAT(CONCAT('grant select on `db_Payroll`.', table_name, ' to `RestrictedUser`@`%`') SEPARATOR ';') from information_schema.tables where table_schema = 'db_Payroll' and table_name not in ('TABLE-YOU-WANT-TO-RESTRICT-1', 'TABLE-YOU-WANT-TO-RESTRICT-2','TABLE-YOU-WANT-TO-RESTRICT-3');

This will output a text field that you can copy and paste into your editor. This particular example will grant SELECT privileges to all tables that are not within the restricted table array for that user.