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Tuesday, January 06, 2009 7:33 AM

Have You Backed Up Your Database Master Key?

If you have encrypted columns in a database or certificates used to create them, you need to make sure that you back up the Database Master Key as part of your maintenance, and then protect that backup file. Here's the short version of the command: BACKUP
Posted by Buck Woody | 1 Comments
Thursday, August 28, 2008 6:53 AM

Backup those Keys

I'm working on a Policy that will expose a particularly thorny issue. In SQL Server 2008, you can use a new feature called Transparent Data Encryption (TDE). This feature encrypts the entire database, so you don't have to change your application at all.
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Monday, November 12, 2007 10:40 AM

The Importance of Connections

Since I didn't blog about anything very technical in my last entry, I thought I would post a little something about what we're hearing about the "Connection" dialogs. We have quite a few places in Management Studio that we pop up a place for you to connect
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Monday, August 27, 2007 8:18 AM

Speeding up encryption

A friend of mine from Tampa, Florida wrote me the other day with an interesting observation: "I have a small finding and don't know where to publish it. Maybe you can help get the word out via your blog? OPEN SYMMETRIC KEY is somewhat costly to execute.
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