Oracle, for instance, has selective data-encryption features, and Transparent Data Encryption is available in SQL Server 2008 edition and higher.

The company's Transparent Data Encryption option, borrowed from SQL Server, is now generally available as part of numerous upgrades to its cloud database platform.

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.

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 ...

Third-party column-level database encryption solutions can protect columns across heterogeneous database environments that may include databases platforms like DB2, Sybase, SQL Server, and Oracle ...

At Microsoft TechEd 2004 in San Diego, Microsoft provided further details on its upcoming database release now known as SQL Server 2005 (formerly code-named “Yukon”). The software will natively ...

Dubbed SQL Server 2016, the forthcoming iteration brings a focus on analytics, cloud capabilities, data encryption and security, as well as the usual raft of features database vendors typically market ...

Opinion: To fend off criminal manhandling of valuable data, database encryption should be one tool in an enterprise's arsenal.

Microsoft has clarified the more confusing elements of SQL Server licensing and extended major benefits to customers. The catch is that Software Assurance is required to take advantage of them.