Limitations and Restrictions If a database is encrypted or even contains a Database Encryption Key (DEK), you cannot use the [!INCLUDE ssAoNewAgWiz] or [!INCLUDE ssAoAddDbWiz] to add the database to ...

Microsoft’s cloud customers can now more easily encrypt their databases with this week’s release of the new Azure SQL Database Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature.

SQL Server 2012 addresses this problem by allowing you to create a structure known as an availability group. An availability group is a collection of databases that are able to fail over as a ...

1/ In SQL server 2008, there is a new whole database encryption option (TDE). I suspect that using this option will make the backups incompatible with SQL 2005.

After two-and-a-half years in preview, Google's Cloud SQL, the company's fully managed MySQL database service, has now hit general availability. As with most Google services that hit this ...

8. Protect all data and any data type with replication. AlwaysOn Availability Groups only replicate SQL Server databases, leaving other data and data types unprotected. Critical or management data ...

For more information, see Cross-Database Transactions and Distributed Transactions for Always On Availability Groups and Database Mirroring (SQL Server) Query statistics system data collector cannot ...