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Invoke-DbaDbDecryptObject

Sander Stad (@sqlstad), sqlstad.nl

Invoke-DbaDbDecryptObject View Source Sander Stad (@sqlstad), sqlstad.nl Windows, Linux, macOS Synopsis Decrypts encrypted stored procedures, functions, views, and triggers using Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) Description Recovers the original source code from encrypted database objects when the original scripts have been lost or are unavailable. This command uses the Dedicated Admin Connection (DAC) to access binary data from sys.sysobjvalues and performs XOR decryption to retrieve the original T-SQL code. This is particularly useful in disaster recovery scenarios where you need to recreate objects but only have access to the encrypted versions in the database.

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