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Column-level security simplifies the design and coding of security in your application, allowing you to restrict column access to protect sensitive data. For example, ensuring that specific users can access only certain columns of a table pertinent to their department.

The CHECK constraint is used to limit the value range that can be placed in a column. If you define a CHECK constraint on a column it will allow only certain values for this column. If you define a CHECK constraint on a table it can limit the values in certain columns based on values in other columns in the row.

Currently, Column-level Security includes two features: Dynamic Data Masking. External ization.

Select Settings > Users + permissions > Column security profiles. Select an existing profile, or select New Profile, enter a name, enter a description, and then select Save. Select the Users tab, select + Add Users, select the users that you want to control access, and then select Add.

Column-level access control provides granular security of individual columns within BigQuery itself. To enforce VPC for policy tags and data policies for column-level access control and dynamic data masking, you must restrict the following APIs in the perimeter: Data Catalog API. BigQuery API.

BigQuery already supports access controls at the project, dataset, and table levels, as well as column-level security through policy tags. Row-level security extends the principle of least privilege by enabling fine-grained access control to a subset of data in a BigQuery table, by means of row-level access policies.

Data access is restricted at the row level with Row-Level Security, whereas data access gets restricted at the column level with Column-Level Security. For example, because Boston is a value (row) in the City Dimension, only salespeople in Boston can view sales in this city.