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One call to `decryptbypassphrase` for decrypting all columns

If I use ENCRYPTBYPASSPHRASE to encrypt the full table then how can I decrypt full table easily by using DECRYPTBYPASSPHRASE? Actually I have to use DECRYPTBYPASSPHRASE ('passphrase', column_name) ...
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Changing passphrase for EncryptByPassPhrase

I am using EncryptByPassPhrase to encrypting some columns. If I want to change the passphrase in the future, how can I change it?
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How to properly secure MySQL database?

We have a web application based on the famous triad apache + php + mysql which we sell to our customers and gets installed on their servers. Currently, we are using MySQL 5.1.41 which has only a ...
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Encrypt/Decrypt output & input for SSIS task

I use SSIS packages to output the data from one system as Comma Separated Values, and then import that same data into a second system. I have a new requirement to encrypt the CSV text files that are ...
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Encrypt MySQL database on a Linux VPS?

I'm working on a rails app for our church, which stores some fairly sensitive information about our people in a MySQL database. We have our own windows server running Hyper-V so the original ...
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Randomly generated password for mysql admin over time?

I have this idea of making my database's Admin account secured by creating the following: Trigger is activated every hour in mysql this trigger activates a stored procedure Stored procedure ...
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Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Encryption Options

I'm trying to explore some encryption options on Microsoft SQL Server 2005. I've recently got around SQL Server 2008 and was able to enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). Now I'm trying to figure ...
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DB Master Key Encrypted By *Correct* Service Master Key?

My client has frequently run process where we move databases from a prod environment to lower environments (refresh QA with prod database, etc). These DBs have database master keys on them. We have ...
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What are the first necessary actions needed to help secure a database's schema & data? [closed]

This smells like an open-ended, opinionated, wiki free-for-all, but I'm not trying to make this a battle of opinions. It seems like there should be a good checklist out there for all to agree on ...
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Simple Implementation of SQL Server 2008 Encryption

I am looking at using some of SQL Server 2008's encryption. I have read the following article on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms179331.aspx Q1a: Is the master key password ...
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Is encrypted database possible?

I'm not a DBA but I've been asked to see if we can encrypt the data in sql server such that the admin, despite having access to SQL Server won't be able to see the data but application would still be ...
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tsql to find users and database level permissions mapped to a certificate

On SQL 2005 and above, how can I find users and database level permissions mapped to a certificate? Story behing this: I copied a database from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008. It had a certificate inside the ...