December 2017
Intermediate to advanced
434 pages
10h 14m
English
SQL Server 2016 has introduced a new way to encrypt the data on SQL Server, which allows the application to encrypt the data and never reveal the encryption keys to the database engine. In this way, not even a sysadmin of SQL Server can read the decrypted values stored in your tables. Unlike the transparent data encryption, which works on the database level, Always Encrypted works on the column level. Unlike the regular column-level encryption, Always Encrypted allows more types of queries on the data like equality comparisons, joins, group by, and so on:

Always Encrypted comes with two flavors of encryption:
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