Microsoft introduced transparent data encryption (TDE) when it released SQL Server 2008, adding full database encryption rather than the limited cell-based encryption that debuted in SQL Server 2005.

The company's Transparent Data Encryption option, borrowed from SQL Server, is now generally available as part of numerous upgrades to its cloud database platform.

SQL Server 2008 introduced a great new feature called TDE, Transparent Data Encryption. It allowed a database to be completely encrypted without having to change the applications that access it.

The new Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) feature will be shipped along with the company’s enterprise version of its database. Relational database provider EnterpriseDB on Tuesday said that it ...

By adding transparent data encryption, we’re making it even more attractive for organizations to move to Postgres as their enterprise database standard.” TDE is now integrated with EDB Standard and ...