Your best bet is going to be to work with both the MS Licensing and Software Vendor together to sort out the licensing requirements.

Arguably, it might be less...

Force Encryption only encrypts the network connection between the database server and the client(s) using SSL (maybe TLS) while Always Encrypted encrypts the data at rest (at the column level,...

Man, this discussion of proper grammar makes me want to run my next post through an "English to Engrish" translator...
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I would expect you could do something like this with Powershell, although whether that's an option depends largely on how your process works.
The first question would be, how does...

You're right, the answer depends heavily on your system and queries.

I will say, the statement below is rather confusing:

THere are a lot of queries that use...