>I have an VPM8 app that talks to MSSQL. My client needs data encryption to protect the data from the DBA viewing sensitive data. Would appreciate if you could recommend a data encryption tools that works with VFP and MSSQL/Oracle.

If you want to store it in encrypted form, from a VFP8 client and back to VFP8, I would use strong encryption provided by the Windows CrypoAPI.
You have all the tools and good examples in the FFC (_crypto.vcx) and best f all, it's free.

See also my examples in this article that might help you:
http://www.feldstein.net/CodeCryptoArticle.htm