Margarity Kerns recently published a very nice article at SQL Server Central on using hash functions to detect changes in rows during the data warehouse load ETL process.  On the discussion page for the article I noticed a lot of the same old arguments against using hash functions to detect change.  After having this same discussion ...

In my last post I talked about how to work around a couple of the limitations of SQL Server encryption by using SQL CLR and the .NET Framework to encrypt a BLOB value (up to 2.1 GB in size), using any supported algorithm you choose. In the example I used AES to encrypt data using a passphrase. SQL Server 2008 also allows you to generate ...