To retrieve values from an encrypted column as plaintext (to decrypt the values): Make sure you can access the column master keys and the metadata about the keys protecting the columns that you're ...

DbEncrypt allows you to apply column-level encryption in your SQL Server database and assign view permissions to different users. Whether for obscuring credit card numbers, social security numbers ...

Column-level (or “cell-level”) encryption was introduced with SQL Server 2005. We can encrypt individual columns that are sensitive in nature.

SQL Server Management Studio cannot decrypt columns when setting "Column Encryption Setting=enabled". This is because when ssms.exe process start, the generic provider is not registered/available into ...

With SQL Server 2005, there are functions and methods provided for data encryption and decryption. These methods were not provided with the earlier version i.e. SQL Server 2000, where you had to ...

Data encryption in SQL Server 2005 can be done either by using password mechanism or by making use of keys and certificates. In this article, we will look at both mechanisms for data encryption for ...

Documentation on MSDN At Microsoft we are working hard to keep our customers’ data safe, both on premises and in the cloud. Always Encrypted in SQL Server and Azure SQL DB represents an important step ...

SQL Server 2016 seeks to make encryption easier via its new Always Encrypted feature. This feature offers a way to ensure that the database never sees unencrypted values of sensitive columns ...