What are the advantages of using Access as the front end to a SQL Server database? For starters, it's likely that your client's users will be more familiar with it, and it's relatively easy to put ...

PostgreSQL foreign data wrappers are a great way to expose APIs to SQL. And SQL is a great way to reason over the data.

In using this feature, access to the encrypted sensitive data can be made only by the application that accesses the data stored in the SQL Server 2016 database.