Which permission should you grant?

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You are the database administrator for a company that hosts Microsoft SQL Server. You manage both on-premises and Microsoft Azure SQL Database environments.

You plan to delegate encryption operations to a user.

You need to grant the user permission to implement cell-level encryption while following the principle of least privilege.

Which permission should you grant?
A . DDLAdmin
B . db_datawriter
C . dbcreator
D . dbo
E . View Database State
F . View ServerState
G . View Definition
H . sysadmin

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Answer: G

Explanation:

The following permissions are necessary to perform column-level encryption, or cell-level encryption.

References: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/relational-databases/security/encryption/encrypt­a-column-of-data