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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005
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Inside Microsoft® SQL Server™ 2005

by Itzik Ben-Gan, Lubor Kollar, Dejan Sarka
May 2006
Intermediate to advanced
536 pages
15h 13m
English
Microsoft Press
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View Options

When you create or alter a view, you can specify options that will control the view’s behavior and functionality. The options ENCRYPTION, SCHEMABINDING, and VIEW_METADATA are specified in the view’s header, and the CHECK OPTION is specified after the query.

ENCRYPTION

The ENCRYPTION option is available for views, UDFs, stored procedures, and triggers. If you don’t specify the ENCRYPTION option, SQL Server stores the text defining the body of the object/routine as clear text in sys.sql.modules (or in syscomments in SQL Server 2000). If you specify the ENCRYPTION option, the object’s text will be converted to an obfuscated format. But don’t rely on this option as an encryption mechanism to protect your intellectual property. People have ...

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ISBN: 0735621977Errata