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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 ...

This book is designed for the system or database administrator, IT manager, and IT professional working with SQL Server because it covers four main topic areas: technologies and architecture ...

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 ...

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 ...

By the end of October, Microsoft will start public previews of a feature for Always Encrypted, which provides encryption of data in transit, at rest, and in use for its Azure SQL Database service ...