# How to Add Column Materialization Rules

### Select your data source on the Pipeline Designer page

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### Navigate to the Transformation/Security tab

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### Search for the desired attribute in the editable grid

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### Scroll horizontally to view more columns

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### Update the materialization transformation type to SQL Expression

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### Enter the materialization transformation expression

For the JSON Tutorial, please \[deploy the database tutorial objects], then for the expression use:

```
udf_std_part_number({attribute_name})
```

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### Enter the materialization transformation description

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### Click save attributes to apply changes

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