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How Dynamic Data Masking Interacts with Bulk Copy (BCP)

Kenneth Fisher puts on a lab coat:

Hypothesis: If I have Dynamic Data Masking enabled on a column then when I use something like BCP to pull the data out it should still be masked.

I’m almost completely certain this will be the case but I had someone tell me they thought it would go differently, and since neither of us had actually tried this out it seemed like time for a simple experiment.

Click through for the experiment and its results.