Is it possible to get the underlying session relevance that powers a Custom Filter? (No)

The custom filters are in the database as XML stored as binary, so they have to be converted to be read. This will do it:

select CAST(CAST(FilterData AS VARBINARY(MAX)) AS XML), * from [BFEnterprise].[dbo].[NAMEDFILTERS]

Thanks to @Aram for this.

They don’t use session relevance, at least not for the filter definition.

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