Tag: SQL Server

• How to Back Up Your Certificates

  

  2014-05-02 - Backup, Cryptography, General, Security

  Certificates are an important part of you encryption strategy and as such need to be backed up. Discover how to achieve that, by using the BACKUP CERTIFICATE statement.

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• PFS Pages: How SQL Server tracks “Page Free Space”

  

  2014-04-30 - General, Series, SQL Server Internals, Storage Wednesday

  PFS pages contain information about the free space available on all pages in a database file. They contain one byte per page that also holds four additional status bits. Read on to discover how to interpret the PFS data.

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• CREATE CERTIFICATE – How to create a Self-Signed Certificate in SQL Server

  

  2014-04-28 - Cryptography, Encryption Hierarchy, General, Security, Series

  Discover how the CREATE CERTIFICATE T-SQL statement can be used to create a self-signed certificate, and what your options are to protect its private key.

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• How to Create a Database Master Key

  

  2014-04-27 - Cryptography, Encryption Hierarchy, General, Security, Series

  Discover how to create and protect the Database Master Key that builds the base of a database encryption hierarchy and in turn can protect certificates and asymmetric keys in its database.

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• How to Create a Service Master Key in SQL Server

  

  2014-04-25 - Cryptography, Encryption Hierarchy, General, Security, Series

  Discover how the service master key is created, what it protects and how it is protected itself, and learn about the two important security implications that arise from the protection mechanism used.

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