SQL Server gives us a few different options when it comes to encryption and I’m going to take a look at each of them at some point in this series but in this first post in the series I want to look at column level encryption.
Before we can even start thinking about encrypting our data, there are a few things that we’re going to need to set up first.
Although I joke about column-level encryption, David shows us just how easy it is to implement. It’s quite useful if you have just one or two columns in the database which need to be encrypted at rest and you don’t want to (or can’t) have the application handle it directly.