Always Encrypted Query Execution Sequence

Implementing Always Encrypted introduces significant query and performance limitations depending on the encryption type chosen. Deterministic encryption always generates the same encrypted value for a given plaintext value, which allows the database to perform equality comparisons, point lookups, and joins on those columns. In contrast, randomized encryption secures data more heavily by generating a different encrypted value every time, but it completely prevents any indexing or computational operations. Because of these constraints, developers must often refactor database objects like stored procedures, views, and triggers to move sensitive logic from the database to the client application.