You *might* be able to do it with a cursor, but the question now would be "why are you trying to do what you're doing?"

Although, you could mostly...

I think I see your mistake.  You're thinking of GO as being similar to, for example, a GOTO in BASIC, where it will jump up to a certain line.
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I fairly sure that when you're storing encrypted values, you need to use a VARBINARY(MAX) to do it.

I don't have access to my test server right now, or...

What would it take to get MS to create a role so that people could view the SQL logs without having to either put them in the securityadmin role, or...

Checking for symmetric keys won't tell you if a database has been TDE encrypted, though.

A query to check for databases that are TDE'ed you could use is: