Agreed. Full database encryption protects against theft of the DB file or backups. For preventing the admin from seeing sensitive data, you should identify the sensitive data and encrypt just...

The main factor is why you're fiddling with it at all.

If you can find that log backup that was taken, you can restore that and then log shipping will resume. If you can't however, you'll have to rebuild the log...

From the previous thread:

Then, restore the full backup WITH NORECOVERY, restore any log backups taken since the full backup followed by the one you took from the...

Always Encrypted is not intended to be entire DB encryption, but to encrypt the data so that the admins can't read it. The idea is that you encrypt the sensitive...

Depends.
What do you need them for, and what are your audit needs?

If you don't care about changes to rows, don't use them.
If you need to...

No. Sleeping...

In fact, just about the only way you can have the DBA not see the data (without rewriting the app and bringing it to its knees with performance problems) is...

Homework? Exam? Interview?

Yes,  you can get the minimum loan payment date using Group By.

There's a semicolon in the middle of that statement.