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Exploring SQL Server 2016 Always Encrypted – Part 3 – Differences between Deterministic or Randomize Encryption

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Gregory Larsen
Gregory Larsen
Jan 25, 2016
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Gregory Larsen

Gregory A. Larsen is a DBA at Washington State Department of Health (DOH). Greg is responsible for maintaining SQL Server and other database management software. Greg works with customers and developers to design and implement database changes, and solve database/application related problems. Greg builds homegrown solutions to simplify and streamline common database management tasks, such as capacity management.

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