decryption

  • hello once again,

    this time i have encrypted a view and when i open its design view the error comes as :

    "query designer encountered an unexpected error cant open encrypted view "

    but the data in the view is seen, now i want to modify the design view but its not working any ideas have tried book online help but nothing is striking

    thanks in advance

    keyur

  • You need to drop and recreate your view. Once you encrypt it SQL no longer stores the plain text of the view/proc/function in plain text. If you're using encryption you should probably look at using SourceSafe or other version control to keep plain text copies of your scripts.

    Andy

  • See recent posting in scripts area for a scripts to decrypt encrypted data base objects.

  • There is the script posted here (based on shoeboy's original post to a security forum) and there's also dSQLSRVD, which you should be able to find via Google. The latter is a program that can decrypt, but it'll require sysadmin privs to do so.

    K. Brian Kelley

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    Author: Start to Finish Guide to SQL Server Performance Monitoring

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    K. Brian Kelley
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