Working with a couple of databases that needed TDE I noticed when I enabled one of them that it was stuck on “encryption in progress” for quite a while. Using the following query I confirmed the following: (source: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb677274.aspx) My … Continue reading
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