US Patent 11360972 Data anonymization in database management systems

Implementations of the present disclosure include receiving a view command for creating a view to display anonymized data in response to one or more queries, the view command including a view name, a table, a set of columns of the table, an anonymization type, a set of static parameters, and, for a sub-set of columns of the table, one or more sets of column-specific parameters, each set of column-specific parameters being specific to anonymization of data of a respective column of the table included in the sub-set of columns, storing the view command within the database system, and receiving a query referencing the view, and in response, providing a data set including data from each column in the sub-set of columns, receiving an anonymized data set including anonymized data that is generated from the data set using the anonymization type, the static parameters, and the sets of column-specific parameters.