July 17, 2007 at 7:52 am
On a production db of over 100 GB, i am getting the below error freqently and i have to restart my server as it becomes dead.
[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]CryptoAPI function 'CryptAcquireContext' failed. Error 0x57: The parameter is incorrect.
Alias: DBDest [07-07-16 17:14:04]
Please advise what is the cause of this problem/error and how to resolve this.
September 17, 2012 at 11:03 am
Did you ever get a solution? I'm running into this too.
March 9, 2015 at 12:00 pm
In our case I discovered the SQL Login used to make the call became corrupt (you can test by trying to script a drop/create - should get same error). Issue was resolved by restarted SQL Server service..
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