Alexander Chigrik

I would like to offer consultation on MS-SQL by E-Mail

I am from Rostov-on-Don in Russia.I work for a firm Bis Ltd (Banking Information Systems) as a Microsoft SQL Server DBA and developer. I have more than 4 years solid experience
with version 6.5 and more than 2 years experience (since december 1998) with version 7.0.


Current Certifications:

  • Brainbench:Master MS SQL Server 6.5 Administration

  • Master MS SQL Server 6.5 Programming
  • Master MS SQL Server 7 Administration
  • Master MS SQL Server 7 Programming

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I am in the list of 15 top experts on MS SQL under the version of experts-exchange:http://www.experts-exchange.com/jsp/qList.jsp?ta=mssql

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Question of the Day

Symmetric Key Encryption

If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted? 

CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey
WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256,
KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase',
IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value'
ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7';
GO

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