September 2010
Intermediate to advanced
1704 pages
111h 8m
English
In SQL Server 2000 and earlier, if you wanted to encrypt data in your databases, you usually needed to implement some form of client-side encryption. SQL Server itself did not provide any means of encrypting data at the database level, so all the encryption and decryption occurred in the application itself. This required custom-written applications to encrypt and decrypt the data, and only those applications would be able to view the encrypted data.
SQL Server 2005 introduced the capability to perform column-level (sometimes called cell-level) encryption. This provided the capability to encrypt data within the database itself at the column level. However, this method is still not transparent to the applications ...
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