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SQL SERVER – Introduction to SQL Server Encryption and Symmetric Key Encryption Tutorial with Script

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Server, SQL Server Encryption, SQL Server Security

SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008 provide encryption as a new feature to protect data against hackers’ attacks. Hackers might be able to penetrate the database or tables, but owing to encryption they would not be able to understand the data or make use of it. Nowadays, it has become imperative to encrypt crucial security-related data while storing in the database as well as during transmission across a network between the client and the server.

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SQL SERVER – List All the Tables for All Databases Using System Tables

Pinal Dave
SQL, SQL Server, SQL Tips and Tricks
SQL Scripts, SQL Stored Procedure, SQL System Table, undocumented SQL
Today we will go over very simple script which will list all the tables for all the database. sp_msforeachdb 'select "?" AS db, * from [?].sys.tables' Update: Based on comments received below I have updated this article. Thank you to all the readers. This is good example where something small like this have good participation from…
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