TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) encrypts the data files at rest but don’t forget that it also encrypts your backup file too. I fancied looking inside the MDF and a backup of my database before enabling TDE and comparing it to … Continue reading

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Arun Sirpal

Mentored by Paul Randal - MVP (SQLskills) during 2015 finally completed my training in Internals and performance tuning with SQLskills during 2016. I have written online articles, created a centralised SQL Server dashboard project on CodePlex, iTunesU Podcasts and I have helped with data collection for SQLskills waits and latches library.

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