Microsoft introduced transparent data encryption (TDE) when it released SQL Server 2008, adding full database encryption rather than the limited cell-based encryption that debuted in SQL Server 2005.

Transparent Data Encryption is easy but has its trade-offs SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted ...

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We're building a new database server to replace an old system. The rules say that the database must be encrypted and we've done so, historically, with a product that encrpyted the whole database.

Hyperconscious of the cloud’s need to appear secure by design, Microsoft announced new encryption and data-protection features today for Azure SQL Database. Microsoft not only wants to encrypt data at ...