• GilaMonster (7/15/2014)


    There's nothing about the column which makes it encrypted. You would need to encrypt the values when you insert (eg with EncryptByKey) and decrypt the values when you select then (eg with DecryptByKey)

    So this needs to be done via .NET, etc or what?

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