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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide
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SQL Server 2017 Developer???s Guide

by Dejan Sarka, Miloš Radivojević, William Durkin
March 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
816 pages
19h 35m
English
Packt Publishing
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Always Encrypted

SQL Server 2016 and 2017 introduce a new level of encryption, the Always Encrypted (AE) feature. This feature enables the same level of data protection as encrypting the data in the client application. Actually, although this is a SQL Server feature, the data is encrypted and decrypted on the client side. The encryption keys are never revealed to the SQL Server Database Engine. This way, a DBA can't also see sensitive data without the encryption keys, just by having sysadmin permissions on the SQL Server instance with the encrypted data. This way, AE makes a separation between the administrators who manage the data and the users who own the data.

You need two keys for AE. First you create the column master key (CMK). Then ...

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