Grant Permissions to create, alter, or view definition of a view in SQL Server

Let's assume you have a SQL Server user called reporting_user and it has select only access to some tables. To give that user the ability to create views use the following statements (be sure to change reporting_user to the name of your user).

grant create view to reporting_user
grant select on schema :: dbo to reporting_user
grant view definition on schema :: dbo to reporting_user