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title: "Row-Level Security | Microsoft Docs"
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# Row-Level Security
  Row-Level Security enables customers to control access to rows in a database table based on the characteristics of the user executing a query (e.g., group membership or execution context). Row-Level Security is now available in [!INCLUDE[ssNoVersion](../../includes/ssnoversion-md.md)] 2016. See [Row-Level Security](https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dn765131.aspx) in the current documentation for the current description of this feature.  
  
## See Also  
 [CREATE SECURITY POLICY (Azure SQL Database)](/sql/t-sql/statements/create-security-policy-transact-sql)   
 [ALTER SECURITY POLICY (Azure SQL Database)](/sql/t-sql/statements/alter-security-policy-transact-sql)   
 [DROP SECURITY POLICY (Azure SQL Database)](/sql/t-sql/statements/drop-security-policy-transact-sql)   
 [CREATE FUNCTION (Transact-SQL)](/sql/t-sql/statements/create-function-transact-sql)   
 [sys.security_policies (Azure SQL Database)](/sql/relational-databases/system-catalog-views/sys-security-policies-transact-sql)   
 [sys.security_predicates (Azure SQL Database)](/sql/relational-databases/system-catalog-views/sys-security-predicates-transact-sql)   
 [Create User-defined Functions (Database Engine)](../user-defined-functions/create-user-defined-functions-database-engine.md)