Roland Hangg

Copy a database between servers with one command

This tool is a helper for your daily work to copy easily databases between Servers/instances and do all the necessary stuff for you.

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2015-12-04 (first published: 2014-09-23)

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In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this:

USE Sales;  
GO  
CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY  
WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256  
ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert;  
GO

This works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK?