Dynamic data masking

Another great security feature is presented in version SQL Server 2016. Dynamic data masking limits sensitive data exposure by masking it to users with low-level privileges. Sometimes you will need to expose some elements from the data, but with built-in elements of preventing unauthorized access. Let's look at the following example: a user will execute SELECT, but unauthorized elements are hidden-masked:

ID	FirstName	LastName	PhoneNumber	EmailAddress	Credit CardNumber
1	Jasmin	Azemović	+387- xxxxxx	[e-mail]	xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-1111
2	Denis	Musić	+387- xxxxxx	[e-mail]	xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-2222
3	Edward	Snowden	+387- xxxxxx	[e-mail]	xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-3333
4	Julian	Assange	+387- xxxxxx	[e-mail]	xxxx-xxxx-xxxx-4444

 

This feature can be implemented without affecting...