October 2018
Beginner to intermediate
390 pages
9h 9m
English
Azure SQL Databases are encrypted with TDE. This option is now enabled by default when creating a new Azure SQL Database. If you have older databases, created before this became a default option, it's enough to change the option to ON and save. The Transparent database encryption options in the Azure SQL Database blade are shown here:

When TDE is enabled for Azure SQL Database, data and backups are encrypted at rest. But if you download or export a backup, this will no longer be the case. To have a database encrypted even after leaving Azure data center, we can use our own key for encryption. To do so we'll need to use ...
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