I had pointed to the link on DMV's because the objects you were trying to access were DMV's and in the article it mentioned that a user needs VIEW SERVER STATE permissions for server based DMV's and VIEW DATABASE STATE permissions for database level DMV's I thought it might help to know that.
Jack Corbett
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