Microsoft on Monday revealed that hospitals and other IT shops should expect the next generation of its database to be available on June 1. Dubbed SQL Server 2016, the forthcoming iteration brings a ...

Credit card information in your business's database is much more secure if you encrypt it. If you store this information as plain text, unscrupulous users can easily steal the data either through ...

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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.

Data encryption performs two purposes: it protects data against internal prying eyes, and it protects data against external threats (hacking, theft of backup tapes, etc.) Encryption in the database ...

Security by default – protecting the enterprise in SQL Server 2025Issued by Ascent TechnologyJohannesburg, 25 Mar 2026 ...

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 ...

In our case, Sharepoint 2007 with SQL Server 2008 R2. The results are pretty consistent. Turn it on and wait, eventually every web on the site will start locking up and web requests will time out.