Mike - great, I did a similar thing a few months back when one of our programmers needed to do an encrypted field for the first time (rot-13 really doesn't cut it) and it was great to see someone with a similar background go through the same exercise.

Off topic:

I notice you were a programmer who ended up doing full time Sybase/SQL Server DBA work.

This is my background as well, for the past 5 years I've been working on moving large Sybase DBs to SQL Server - which is a great deal of programming since there really aren't

commercial products to do this - which has caused me to assume that most Sybase db's are being left in place, even if the shop ends up doing all new work on SQL Server.