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COLUMN_PRIVILEGES (Transact-SQL)

Returns one row for each column that has a privilege that is either granted to or granted by the current user in the current database.

To retrieve information from these views, specify the fully qualified name of INFORMATION_SCHEMA.view_name.

Column name

Data type

Description

GRANTOR

nvarchar(128)

Privilege grantor.

GRANTEE

nvarchar(128)

Privilege grantee.

TABLE_CATALOG

nvarchar(128)

Table qualifier.

TABLE_SCHEMA

nvarchar(128)

Name of schema that contains the table.

Important noteImportant
Do not use INFORMATION_SCHEMA views to determine the schema of an object. The only reliable way to find the schema of an object is to query the sys.objects catalog view or use the OBJECT_SCHEMA_NAME function.

TABLE_NAME

sysname

Table name.

COLUMN_NAME

sysname

Column name.

PRIVILEGE_TYPE

varchar(10)

Type of privilege.

IS_GRANTABLE

varchar(3)

Specifies whether the grantee can grant permissions to others.

Examples

The following example returns rows from the COLUMN_PRIVILEGES view.

USE AdventureWorks;
GO

SELECT *
FROM INFORMATION_SCHEMA.COLUMN_PRIVILEGES;