Is there any built in facility to encrypt a column data in SQLSERVER/MSDE

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Is there any built in facility to encrypt a column data in SQLSERVER/MSDE

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Anji ReddyStrong, column-level encryption is possible in SQL 2005.

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Clifford Dibble|||For a couple of examples, see:

http://blogs.msdn.com/lcris/archive/2005/06/09/427523.aspx
http://blogs.msdn.com/lcris/archive/2005/06/10/428178.aspx

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