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Recently, my good friend and co-worker Aaron Bertrand and I were producing a video for the upcoming PASS Summit 2015 event. (Learn more about the international SQL ...

BANGALORE, INDIA: Data security is one of the top priorities for a database administrator. Hackers are always on their toes to grab any bit of customers' personal details, be it his account number or ...

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, ...

Security is a longstanding priority for Microsoft across its products and offerings. In fact, SQL Server has pro­duced the fewest security vulnerabilities of all the major database platforms for many ...