I ALWAYS tell my developers to isolate logic into functions. Write a user-defined function that inputs your variables and returns your value. This way you simply add this as a...

That's what I use for all of our DBs so we have production and test in sync daily.

I had tried using this for a development instance on a different...

I see that almost all responses are against encrypting. The few that have done so were to basically try to secure critical code for their system.

My perspective is that...