I wrote a short piece over on the Redgate blog that covers how SQL Compare can catch and build a script to move Dynamic Data Masking (DDM) code from one database to another.

As the surface area of SQL Server programming changes, moving these items from one instance or database to another becomes important. I know that Microsoft doesn’t always make this easy or smooth, so we need tools to help.

DDM changes are fairly simple, but I can see these being implemented in lots of code, as they’re an easy way to mask an obscure some data in an app without code changes, but we need to be sure these changes get deployed from development to production.

Or production to development, if you’re the kind of person that works that way . Don’t worry, SQL Compare can help there, too.

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