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.

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 ...

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

Choose a SQL server computer entry in the "Connect to Server" dialog by clicking on it. Set the "Authentication" pull-down list to "Windows Authentication," then click the "Connect" button.

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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 ...

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.