Grant SELECT permission on a view, but not on underlying objects

Question

I often read that one purpose of a VIEW is security: to allow some users access to the underlying table, and other users to a derived view only. With that in mind I designed

Answer 1

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The last post has the details of what was run to grant permissions to a view but not the underlying tables:

CREATE USER [Reports] FOR LOGIN [Reports] WITH DEFAULT_SCHEMA = Reports
CREATE SCHEMA Reports AUTHORIZATION Reports --Auth as Reports was the key piece of information that I had missed.
GO
CREATE ROLE Reporting AUTHORIZATION db_securityadmin
GO
exec sp_addrolemember @rolename = 'Reporting', @membername = 'Reports'
GO
GRANT CREATE VIEW TO Reporting
GRANT CREATE TABLE TO Reporting

GRANT SELECT, VIEW DEFINITION ON [dbo].[zName] TO Reporting;

FYI - For stored procedures, you should be granting EXEC to the procedure.