Posted by David Portas on 12/09/05 00:35

Martin wrote:

> It made me wonder how
> high-security DB's are handled. It seems to me that data is, for the most
> part, fully exposed.
>
> -Martin

High security means at all levels, including physical access. Your bank
doesn't give you their confidential data on a disk does it? That's why
they don't need to encrypt it in the database - because they can secure
and authenticate the access to the data.

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David Portas
SQL Server MVP
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