Not really. I believe what the article is addressing is encrypting the data for storage in the database. The link you provided specifies securing the communication between the client and MySQL. Data are still stored cleartext. I think the functionality MS is looking to provide is more like
Oracle's dbms_obfuscation_toolkit functionality.
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Not really. I believe what the article is addressing is encrypting the data for storage in the database. The link you provided specifies securing the communication between the client and MySQL. Data are still stored cleartext. I think the functionality MS is looking to provide is more like Oracle's dbms_obfuscation_toolkit functionality.