I'm with Jeff on this one. I've written some pretty hair-raising stuff that I still suspect to this day might be a first, and liable for some pretty serious commercialisation one day (if I ever get a minute ... sigh). It's smart code, not big code.

Like Jeff, I think it's worth protecting from competitors, not customers. The main beef in the article you referenced was that the ISV's customers had their own IT sections who could not access the SPs to improve them, a situation which could not be further from the truth for MY customers.

On the other hand, if, like someone mentioned, the MSSQL encryption is so low powered that Redgate have built an automatic decryptor into SQL prompt, maybe we shouldn't even be bothering with this discussion.

Dr X