Legislative Bills. Legislation begins with the submission of a bill to the legislature for consideration. A bill is a draft, or tentative version, of what might become part of the written law.
SQL Server 2005: using symmetric keys to encrypt data. In SQL Server 2005, the recommended method for encrypting data is to use symmetric keys. A symmetric key can be created using the CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY statement. Information about symmetric keys is stored in the sys.symmetric_keys catalog.
You can then specify the server where the database really is, to include configuring the protocol, the server name, and the port. Clicking the OK button will create the alias. In the case of Figure 2, I'm creating an alias called MyOldServer which points to my local server's default instance.