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Hi
I have encrypted a column called [ENCR_NOTE] in Snowflake using the encrypt built in function.
I have loaded the data in Power Query and I m trying to now decrypt it.
How can I decrypt them please? I know the passphrase and want to decrypt them in Power BI.
Please help
Thank you! Could you please tell me more or point me to the article that will help me?
Yes it is select *, to_varchar(decrypt(encr_note, 'xxxx'), 'utf-8') notes
from finrep_dev.treasury.cash_balance_fact_encr_pbi
And I have now managed to decrypt them . The challenge for me now is to manage to decrypt with a passphrase. Please help me with that...any ideas?
You can use parameters to supply the passphrase. Obviously that is not safe. You could also store the passphrase elsewhere like a SharePoint document library with restricted access. Doing that will likely result in issues with the formula firewall.
Do you know the algorithm too?
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