I checked. This will work on Oracle 11g. That is you can join an encrypted column with a non encrypted column on 11g. But our client is on 10gr2. On 2/24/09, Guillermo Alan Bort <cicciuxdba@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > you mean like > > from a join b on a.encrypted_col = b.unencrypted_col? > > That wouldn't make sense and it's not supposed to work. > > Other than that, I'd really go with 11g tablespace level encryption > since it's way faster and a lot more reliable than TDE. > > > hth > > Alan Bort > Oracle Certified Professional > > > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:26 PM, FMHabash <fmhabash@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > We ran into issues with 10g TDE regarding its restrictions. We had to > upgrade to 11g to use tablespace encryption which is working much better in > terms of performance and stability. We are conducting performance testing > currently. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: harshan eppuram <harshan.eppuram@xxxxxxxxx> > > Sent: Monday, February 23, 2009 7:16 PM > > To: oracle list <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > Subject: Questions about TDE > > > > Hi All, > > > > We are implementing TDE(Transidential Data Encryption) on a solaris box > > 10gr2 RAC ASM for one of client which is a Bank. We are facing following > two > > issues. This is a 4 TDB database. > > > > 1. Joining between encrypted and no encrypted table's columns are not > > working. > > 2. Encryption process is taking too much of time say 5 days ( We first > > created tables with out encryption loaded data and then modified the > columns > > to be encrpted) > > > > Let me know if anybody come accross such sitiuation. > > > > Thanks and Regards > > Harshan > > > > > > -- > > Harshan Eppurath > > 040-40214832 > > 09392426435 > > > > -- > > //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l > > > > > > > -- Harshan Eppurath 040-40214832 09392426435