Have you ever worked anywhere that actually encrypted sensitive information at a column/field/table level? Or did your credit card/loan/insurance/etc processing service tick the “encryption at rest” checkbox and move on?

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@bflipp Three companies at this point and all for tax IDs.
One has a varbinary field with custom DLL that the web front end encrypts/decrypts.
The second used asymmetric and symmetric keys in SQL Server itself to handle it.