SQL Server Always On is a high availability and disaster recovery solution that can also enhance the security of your data. In this article, you will learn how to use SQL Server Always On to ...

Microsoft said a new Always Encrypted security feature highlights its upcoming SQL Server 2016 -- "the biggest leap forward in Microsoft's data platform history" -- shipping this summer in a public ...

The next version of SQL Server will include an additional layer of security that keeps valuable personal data such as Social Security numbers, private healthcare data or credit card information ...

AlwaysOn encompasses the SQL Server solutions for mission-critical high availability and disaster recovery. Two solutions were included under the AlwaysOn umbrella in SQL Server 2012: Availability ...

Prior to SQL Server 2016, currently in CTP, your main method for encrypting a SQL Server application was to use a feature called Transparent Data Encryption. TDE provides strong encryption, but with ...

AlwaysOn availability groups is a SQL Server 2012 technology that allows groups of databases to be failed over to other SQL Server installations. It can enable disaster recovery scenarios while also ...

By default, Always Encrypted is disabled for a database connection. Enabling Always Encrypted for a database connection instructs the .NET Framework Data Provider for SQL Server, used by SQL Server ...

In August, we announced the SQL Server AlwaysOn Offering in the Microsoft Azure Portal Gallery. This offering fully automates the configuration of a highly available SQL Server deployment on Azure ...

Basically, the product developers were able to substitute their custom built listener processes with the tried-and-true listener process in Windows. That’s one reason why Windows Server Failover ...