DbEncrypt allows you to apply column-level encryption in your SQL Server database and assign view permissions to different users. Whether for obscuring credit card numbers, social security numbers ...

With SQL Server 2005, there are functions and methods provided for data encryption and decryption. These methods were not provided with the earlier version i.e. SQL Server 2000, where you had to ...

Microsoft on Monday revealed that hospitals and other IT shops should expect the next generation of its database to be available on June 1. Dubbed SQL Server 2016, the forthcoming iteration brings a ...

But one way to avoid overhead is to encrypt at the column level in a database table, rather than encrypting anything and everything on a file system. Securing directories versus securing the database.

Choose a SQL server computer entry in the "Connect to Server" dialog by clicking on it. Set the "Authentication" pull-down list to "Windows Authentication," then click the "Connect" button.

1/ In SQL server 2008, there is a new whole database encryption option (TDE). I suspect that using this option will make the backups incompatible with SQL 2005.

The company's Transparent Data Encryption option, borrowed from SQL Server, is now generally available as part of numerous upgrades to its cloud database platform.