Create Grant Statement for All Custom Views in Microsoft SQL

On a recent project, I needed to create a new database role for some new SQL views which had been created.

Creating the role is easy enough, but to make sure all the relevant views (and there were quite a few) looked like a bigger job until I realised I could select from sys.views and generate the grant script at the same time.

In the below script, the first highlighted section is the database role and the second the start of the views to have select permissions granted (I always use a uv_ prefix for views):

/*
Created by Ian Grieve of azurecurve | Ramblings of an IT Professional (http://www.azurecurve.co.uk)
This code is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 Int).
*/
SELECT
	'GRANT SELECT ON ' + name + ' TO urpt_SalesViews' + CHAR(10) + 'GO'
FROM
	sys.views
WHERE
	name LIKE 'uv_[/highlight%'

The output of the above should be returned to text and can then be copied and pasted into a new script window.