Data Masker Help
Published 06 January 2020
Our engineers guide you through getting started with Data Masker and explain how to make the most of your data masking:
Quick Links into the Help Documentation
In addition to the above documentation, we also provide the following resources to help you get started with Data Masker:
Learn Data Masker at Redgate University (training videos)
Get started with Data Masker, and master the fundamentals quickly, by watching the Getting Started with Data Masker for SQL Server video course from Redgate University.
Get the most out of Data Masker (technical how-to articles)
Redgate's Product Learning articles demonstrate practical uses for most of the main features of Data Masker for SQL Server. They explore the data masking rules and techniques that will allow us to mask data thoroughly, so that it can't reveal the identity of an individual, but in a way that the masked data not only looks like the real thing, but also has the right distribution, so will act like it too, when we query it.
Use the "Topics" list to navigate to the Data Masker topics of interest. For example:
- Compliant Database Provisioning - articles describing how to mask data as part of a SQL Clone provisioning process
- Masking Data for Development and Testing - articles describing the mechanics of using Data Masker to obfuscate different types of data
You can also filter by the level (or type) of article. The
- Strategy articles - offer a strategic, technical view of the tool, the challenges it helps to solve and the ways in which it might improve your database development and deployment processes
- How to articles - in-depth technical articles showing how to solve particular problems using the tool
- What's new articles - higher level articles describing recent new features and their intent