Pass-through policies for dynamic tables with incremental refresh (General availability)

GAJul 20, 2026VerifiedAdded Sep 22, 2026

Dynamic tables that have base tables with arbitrary masking or row access policies can now maintain incremental refresh when the policy is pass-through for the role used during refresh (that is, when the refresh role has unrestricted access to all rows and columns regardless of the policy condition).

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