TDE (Transparent Data Encryption) encrypts the data files at rest but don’t forget that it also encrypts your backup file too. I fancied looking inside a backup of my database before enabling TDE and comparing it to when enabled.
My database is in the recovery pending state and I want to get in and extract the data out into a new database, I have NO BACKUPS available so some data (even if it is dodgy) is better than nothing.
The title is adapted from a child-hood movie of mine and is my daily (database-related) WTF moment and it is my entry for this month’s T-SQL Tuesday found: http://www.pontop.dk/single-post/2017/03/07/Announcing-T-SQL-Tuesday-88-%E2%80%93-The-daily-database-related-WTF
If you ever need to move a copy of a SQL database in Azure across servers then here is a quick easy way.
A nice little error log feature that I noticed in SQL Server 2016 regarding tempdb.
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