Oracle, for instance, has selective data-encryption features, and Transparent Data Encryption is available in SQL Server 2008 edition and higher.

1/ In SQL server 2008, there is a new whole database encryption option (TDE). I suspect that using this option will make the backups incompatible with SQL 2005.

The company's Transparent Data Encryption option, borrowed from SQL Server, is now generally available as part of numerous upgrades to its cloud database platform.

Microsoft's SQL Server database software offers two easy-to-use functions, one of which encrypts data using a passphrase, the other decrypting it with the same passphrase.

SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted without having to change the applications that access it.

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