Transparent database encryption

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    Gail Shaw
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  • Thank you Gail, this was tough. Not like last week's question :-).

    M&M

  • ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v10/MS.SQLSVR.v10.en/s10de_4deptrbl/html/c75d0d4b-4008-4e71-9a9d-cee2a566bd3b.htm

    The pages in an encrypted database are encrypted before they are written to disk and decrypted when read into memory

  • ako58 (7/5/2011)


    ms-help://MS.SQLCC.v10/MS.SQLSVR.v10.en/s10de_4deptrbl/html/c75d0d4b-4008-4e71-9a9d-cee2a566bd3b.htm

    The pages in an encrypted database are encrypted before they are written to disk and decrypted when read into memory

    That's right, for new writes, but when encryption is set the entire database is encrypted immediately using an asynchronous background thread.

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  • I'd have thought you can just reason this through to get to the correct answer.

    Nice question Gail.

  • Great question. For me, I couldn't decide between the background task running after the ALTER DATABASE command completed or immediately, before the ALTER DATABASE completed, as the background thread is asynchronous and I wasn't sure if the ALTER DATABASE had other work to do after it kicked the thread off.

    Fortunately, I chose correctly 🙂

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  • mohammed moinudheen (7/4/2011)


    Thank you Gail, this was tough. Not like last week's question :-).

    See, that was just a warmup. 🙂

    Gail Shaw
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  • very good, question!!!!

    thanks Gail!!!!


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  • Nice question - thanks!

    -Ki

  • Good question!

    Simone
  • Nice question Gail. Can you give us something harder? 😉

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  • SQLRNNR (7/5/2011)


    Nice question Gail. Can you give us something harder? 😉

    I could, but then people would complain.

    Gail Shaw
    Microsoft Certified Master: SQL Server, MVP, M.Sc (Comp Sci)
    SQL In The Wild: Discussions on DB performance with occasional diversions into recoverability

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  • Dang, I clicked too fast without thinking it through and got it wrong. Great Question though, thanks!

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  • SQLRNNR (7/5/2011)


    Nice question Gail. Can you give us something harder? 😉

    Can't win them all...

    I think some trivia from Holy Grail would be good to toss in from time to time.

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