• We're required to comply with the DoD STIG guides for our systems, and one of the requirements is "data files containing sensitive information must be encrypted" and "SQL Server must protect data at rest..." Well, they consider *everything* in the DBs to be "sensitive," so...

    Unfortunately, while I could argue that it's not needed, I'd get more results trying to dig my way to Jamaica with my bare hands, so it's easier to just bite the bullet and do it...