Category Archives for "Encryption"

AlwaysOn 2016 – Encrypted Databases and Performance

By Ginger Daniel | Encryption , SQL Administration , SQL Server

It is common knowledge that encrypting a database causes degraded performance in a SQL server. In an AlwaysOn environment performance can be even more sluggish because there is the extra element of data replication latency. How much difference does it really make? Of course the answer is “it depends” on your environment and your workload. […]

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AlwaysOn 2016 – Encrypted Databases in an AG

By Ginger Daniel | Encryption , SQL 2016 , SQL Administration , SQL Server

In the AlwaysOn 2016 release, there are several enhancements that have improved manageability, scalability, and availability. One of the enhancements is the ability to add encrypted databases to an AlwaysOn group. Encrypted databases were allowed in earlier versions of AlwaysOn, however they could not be accessed if there was a failover to a secondary replica […]

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