Asymmetric Keys

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Asymmetric Keys
Asymmetric Keys is encrypted by DMK or Password
It use a public key and a private key to encrypt data.
Asymmetric Keys is unable to backup.
It can be used to encrypt data.
If you delete the key, you need to restore the database from backup.
It’s private key can be RSA algorithm with 4096,3072,2048 length.
One Database can have many Asymmetric Keys

Show Asymmetric Keys Information

Create Asymmetric Keys

Drop Asymmetric Keys

Change Asymmetric Keys’ password

Change Asymmetric Keys’ protection from DMK to password

Change Asymmetric Keys’ protection from password to DMK

Author: Joe Chan