Hey spiceheads,
I'm currently beating my head off the wall trying to figure out this SQL issue. So my boss left back in January, and two days ago we had an issue with SQL where a DB needed to be restored...
So here the quick and dirty. We have TDE (transparent data encryption) turned on for ALL our SQL DB's. Boss is gone, SQL Master Key is broken/not working, and DB’s cannot be restored or backed up properly.
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.
Does 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. I have backups of the SQL DB's but they are ALL encrypted.
SQL 2008 R2 - prod
SQL 2012 - Testing env.
Help!