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Encryption
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Preparing SQL Servers and Data for Quantum Computing
Just like advances in artificial intelligence, I have heard that quantum computing is going to be a disruptive technology for our future. For instance, there’s the concern that it’s going to break/crack a lot of network encryption and potentially data encryption. What’s going to be affected, how long do we have, and what do I (and my organization) need to do to prepare for it?
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No Backdoors
Governments want backdoors built into encryption software, which Steve thinks is a bad idea.
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Searching an Encrypted Column
This article examines the challenges with searches on encrypted data and presents a possible solution that you might use to speed up those queries.
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BIT_COUNT() IV
In SQL Server 2025, I run this code:
select bit_count('A')
What is returned? See possible answers