Our firm develops data warehouse solutions for 'off-the-shelf' accounting systems. Our IP is therefore contained in the code that we have developed. The last thing we want is to allow the accounting system developers to simply take our code and incorporate it into their products.

In addition, we are expected to provide ongoing support for our solutions. We have recently had one well meaning client that has started to play around with the code, causing more problems than trying to solve.

We are currently looking at encryption tools such as SQL Shield 4 as an effective encryption tool for SQL 2005. I would be interested to read any feedback on such tools....