http://www.sqlservercentral.com/blogs/steve_jones/archive/2009/05/25/sql-server-encryption-protecting-files-at-rest.aspxYou have a few options for protecting your SQL Server data at rest. So far I haven't seen anything thing protects data in memory, and I'm not sure we ever will. After all, at some point it needs to be processed, joined, etc., and that can'tenCommunityServer 2007.1 (Build: 20917.1142)