>>I'm wondering about something. Is there a big impact on performance when using Craig's tool?
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>>Anyone here here noticed a big degradation on performance when encrypting on tables with a lot of records compared to processing on big tables without encryption?
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>I use business objects for my data and have getter and setter methods for fields/properties. In my getters, when applicable, I decrypt the data and in my setters I encrypt the data. I only encrypt/decrypt sensitive fields, not entire tables. In my situation I see no affect on performance. I don't know if this info helps, but there it is :)

Thanks Brandon.