diff --git a/core/table.ts b/core/table.ts
index a5af2516d..0e16afda2 100644
--- a/core/table.ts
+++ b/core/table.ts
@@ -82,6 +82,9 @@ export class Table {
     if (config.disabled) {
       this.disabled();
     }
+    if (config.protected) {
+      this.protected();
+    }
     if (config.redshift) {
       this.redshift(config.redshift);
     }
@@ -137,6 +140,11 @@ export class Table {
     return this;
   }
 
+  public protected() {
+    this.proto.protected = true;
+    return this;
+  }
+
   public sqldatawarehouse(sqlDataWarehouse: dataform.ISQLDataWarehouseOptions) {
     this.proto.sqlDataWarehouse = dataform.SQLDataWarehouseOptions.create(sqlDataWarehouse);
     return this;
diff --git a/examples/bigquery_language_v2/definitions/example_incremental.sqlx b/examples/bigquery_language_v2/definitions/example_incremental.sqlx
index 81541ebfc..ac78ef7a2 100644
--- a/examples/bigquery_language_v2/definitions/example_incremental.sqlx
+++ b/examples/bigquery_language_v2/definitions/example_incremental.sqlx
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-config { type: "incremental" }
+config { type: "incremental", protected: true }
 
 js {  const crossdb = require("@dataform/crossdb"); }
 
diff --git a/tests/api/api.spec.ts b/tests/api/api.spec.ts
index b93ad8cca..bde78982e 100644
--- a/tests/api/api.spec.ts
+++ b/tests/api/api.spec.ts
@@ -697,6 +697,7 @@ describe("@dataform/api", () => {
             t.name === schemaWithSuffix("df_integration_test") + ".example_incremental"
         );
         expect(exampleIncremental).to.not.be.undefined;
+        expect(exampleIncremental.protected).eql(true);
         expect(exampleIncremental.query.trim()).equals("select current_timestamp() as ts");
         expect(exampleIncremental.where.trim()).equals(
           `ts > (select max(ts) from \`tada-analytics.${schemaWithSuffix(
diff --git a/version.bzl b/version.bzl
index 623e36010..c6dc068e1 100644
--- a/version.bzl
+++ b/version.bzl
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 # NOTE: If you change the format of this line, you must change the bash command
 # in /scripts/publish to extract the version string correctly.
-DF_VERSION = "1.3.3"
+DF_VERSION = "1.3.4"