Comments on: Can you still use DBCC PAGE to access data in dropped tables if TDE is turned on?

By: Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 00:55:26 +0000

Right, but it’s not too much of a stretch to wonder if the TDE process might only apply to data that it knows about.

By: PhyDataDBA

PhyDataDBA — Tue, 18 Aug 2015 16:24:00 +0000

Not surprised DBCC page works like this with TDE.
TDE is supposed to present data transparently in every way to any authorized connection or process.
I would be more surprised if this did not work with TDE.

By: Rob Farley

Rob Farley — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 12:19:34 +0000

Yup, it’s fairly obvious – but it’s quite reasonable to expect that it might only decrypt pages that are part of known allocations or something like that. It’s good that you found it obvious though.

By: SQL Admin

SQL Admin — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 11:57:12 +0000

TDE is used to encrypt the physical files , enabling encryption will secure the physical files so they cannot be used without specific key ,
So if you attach them in a SQL instance which have the key installed they will be normally accessed , so it’s obvious that you can access the pages contents using DBCC Page , however you cannot attach them in a different instance
by the way I might be wrong because I am new DBA , and currently learning