Next weekend we have another round of SQL Saturday goodness in Christchurch with SQL Saturday South Island (The 831st SQL Saturday!). Check out the full list of speakers here. Spoilers – there’s some amazing speakers coming and some diverse topics being discussed.

I will be talking about Encryption this time around. It’s an entry level session designed to make it clear to users new to encryption that the technical implementation should not be a barrier to protecting their data. We’re going to demo setting up every type of encryption SQL Server offers in this 50 minute session and spend some time talking about the thing that is way more difficult – getting everyone to agree on what should be encrypted.