I agree. I'm only doing these questions so people are aware if they run into the strange situation.

You can open in an editor, but you really need a hex editor. Here's a backup of my sample database before I enable TDE.

Note the offset: 29252A....

I'll look at source control in a later article.

Thank you and happy to help.

Note that you will get some logging as pages change and they are decrypted. If you encrypt again, it's online, but more logs.

Like most software places, Microsoft is composed of people, who are not consistent in what they do.

Someone likely defined the build versions in some method and over...

It's not take, it's have. Not many do, but some do.

Yes, the encryption or decryption happens in the background.

man command is something I used to use often. I just find it to be a poor design decision, but a clever one, that "-af" is "-a -f". It's short...