
IT Adventures: Episode Five - Replacement Holidays.However, I was not the one who coordinated it. And they would provide a certificate of destruction as well.

In times past I have worked for companies even as recently as a year ago that would come and get our retired IT equipment at no charge. Is there such a thing as free e-cycling anymore? Hardware.Snap! - Martian Pet Rock, Dinner in the Stratosphere, Gas Stations in Space Spiceworks Originalsįlashback: April 21, 2000: COPPA (Children's Online Privacy Protection Act) goes into effect (Read more HERE.)īonus Flashback: April 21, 2001: The Endeavor crew on flight STS-1.SpiceWorld is back in Austin from September 5th-7th and I want to see you all there with me! While we've seen a lot of registrations from the community come in, it seems as though some of you still need a bit more convincing or a better understanding of t. If you haven’t registered for SpiceWorld yet - Watch this! Spiceworks.I would like to test creating the master key and trying to restore a backed-up encrypted data base before performing these steps in prod. help?ĮDIT: this was being run on my test SQL server, and not the prod server. it states there is a master key file but i can drop it. When trying to drop the master key that SQL states is already there:

Please create a master key in the database or open the master key in the session before performing this operation. Please drop it before performing this statement. There is already a master key in the database. WITH PRIVATE KEY (FILE = 'C:\Temp\privatekeyfilename.pvk',ĭECRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'passwordhere') I tried to rebuild the master key using the cert and private key files but get the follow error message when running the command.ĬREATE MASTER KEY ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'passwordhere' Running into the same issue I had following a guide yesterday.

I have backups of the SQL DB's but they are ALL encrypted. I have backups of the private key file and the certificate, but i do not have a backup of the master key file! Is there an easy way to recreate the master key file with these two files? i still have the old SQL queries with the password used for the encryption, I just do not know the correct way to start resolving this issue.ĭoes anyone know how I can restore the master key file using these two files? I do have a second SQLserver for testing to rebuild of the master key file. Boss is gone, SQL Master Key is broken/not working, and DB’s cannot be restored or backed up properly. We have TDE (transparent data encryption) turned on for ALL our SQL DB's. So my boss left back in January, and two days ago we had an issue with SQL where a DB needed to be restored. I'm currently beating my head off the wall trying to figure out this SQL issue.
