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  • >>>In order to retrieve data for the sys.indexes view you would have to GRANT SELECT ON <object> TO <user> for all the above objects. Sadly, this is not possible, because of the following restrictions...<<< You don't need the SELECT permissions on the above 4 systables but you "see" some data in sys.indexes, exactly the data you have permissions on: "the visibility of metadata is limited to securables that a user either owns or on which the user has been granted some permission", technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms187113(v=sql.110).aspx Commented Jul 25, 2017 at 8:47
  • I agree and read the underlying documentation. Thanks. OP was asking what the minimal requirements would be to access the data. I was just digressing slightly to eventually come back to the least required permissions. Commented Jul 25, 2017 at 9:00
  • db_datareader role does not provide access to filter_definition column on sys.indexes. The has_filter column will show true but the filter_definition is null. So as stated by sepupic some of the metadata won't be visible. Commented Jan 11, 2019 at 14:03