DbEncrypt allows you to apply column-level encryption ... is a powerful encryption tool that allows administrators to easily secure sensitive data. However, when Microsoft SQL Server 2005 is ...

SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted without having to change the applications that access it.

Starting with SQL Server 2005, Microsoft allowed us to use column-level encryption natively within the database engine. Sensitive columns could be encrypted by an application and decrypted as ...