Microsoft recently announced the public preview of the Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) feature for Azure SQL Database that holds a lot of potential for on-the-fly data obfuscation that traditionally would have required either custom business logic or third party systems.
In this post I am going to take the opportunity to walk through how we can set this up for an existing database. For the purpose of this post I am going to utilise the AdventureWorks sample database for Azure SQL Database which you can download from Codeplex.
Our Azure SQL Database Server
Firstly we need to understand our Azure SQL Database Server instance configuration. At time of writing any existing Azure SQL Database Server or one created without specifying a Version flag will use the “2.0” Azure SQL Database engine which does not support DDM.
If this is your scenario the you will need to upgrade your server to…
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