Setting up TDE
Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) is one of the easiest ways of encrypting your data at rest. In the previous posts we looked at what TDE is and how it...
2023-01-06
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Matthew McGiffen
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Understanding Keys and Certificates with TDE
When you first look at the encryption hierarchy for TDE in SQL Server it can be a bit daunting. There seem to be a lot of objects involved and...
2023-01-04 (first published: 2022-12-21)
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Recommended Approach to Encryption in SQL Server
We looked earlier at the various places our data lives – on disk, in memory, in-transit across the network. A good strategy will protect all of these locations –...
2022-12-28 (first published: 2022-12-14)
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What is TDE (Transparent Data Encryption)?
TDE is referred to as a “transparent” form of encryption. What that means is that the process of encrypting and decrypting data is fully performed in the background. The...
2022-12-19
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Encrypting Your SQL Data Should be Your Default Option
Cyber-attacks and data breaches seem to be perpetually on the rise. Every week we hear news of large companies that have had data stolen with both financial and reputational...
2022-12-14 (first published: 2022-11-30)
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Overview of SQL Server Encryption Features
SQL Server has had the native ability to encrypt data since SQL Server 2005. This included functionality that could be used to encrypt individual items and columns of data...
2022-12-12
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Encryption and Data Protection Regulation
One of the reasons you may be considering encryption is due to the relevant data protection regulation: either because the regulation specifies that data should be encrypted or because...
2022-12-07
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My SQL Server Encryption book has just been published!
It’s been a long journey, but I got the email from Apress yesterday to say that my book “Pro Encryption is SQL Server 2022” has now been published. You...
2022-12-05 (first published: 2022-11-23)
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What do we want to achieve by encrypting our data?
On the face of it, this is a very obvious question with a very obvious answer. We want to prevent data from falling into the wrong hands. In practice,...
2022-12-05
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Query Store Hints in SQL Server 2022
Another neat little feature in SQL Server 2022 is Query Store Hints. This is the ability to apply a query hint through Query Store rather than having to modify...
2022-11-30
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Blogs
T-SQL Tuesday #180: Good enough is perfect Roundup
This month, I prompted bloggers to discuss whether good enough is perfect. Thank you to all...
Using SQL Compare with Read-only Access
By Steve Jones
Recently a customer asked if SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare can be used...
Forums
Microsoft Recommendations for Update Stats?
I have an application team that is insisting on daily (and for some, weekly)...
how can i tell if our db2 driver is ms or ibm or other?
i see this in the definition of a linked server on our wh sql...
normal role member to be able to view list of other role members in his DB
Is this even possible ? Tried with grant but to no avail. [sys].[database_role_members] and...
Question of the Day
A Strange Result
What does this code return in SSMS 20 from SQL Server 2019?
select '|' + CHAR(0)+'abc' + '|';See possible answers