column-privileges-transact-sql.md

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COLUMN_PRIVILEGES (Transact-SQL)

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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 ** Do not use INFORMATION_SCHEMA views to determine the schema of an object. The only reliable way to find the schema of a object is to query the sys.objects catalog view.
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.

See Also

System Views (Transact-SQL)
Information Schema Views (Transact-SQL)
sys.sql_modules (Transact-SQL)
sys.objects (Transact-SQL)
sys.database_permissions (Transact-SQL)
sys.server_permissions (Transact-SQL)