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What is SSL in SQL Server?
The Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) can be used to encrypt data transferred on your network between your SQL Server instance and a client application. SSL uses certificates to validate the server and the client should verify the certificate using the chain of trust where the trust anchor is the root certificate authority.
Where can I find SSL certificate in SQL Server?
In SQL Server Configuration Manager, in the console pane, expand SQL Server Network Configuration. Right-click Protocols for , and then select Properties. Choose the Certificate tab, and then select Import. Select Browse and then select the certificate file.
How do you check if SQL Server has SSL enabled?
Check if the connection is encrypted You can query the sys. dm_exec_connections dynamic management view (DMV) to see if the connections to your SQL Server is encrypted or not. If the value of encrypt_option is “TRUE” then your connection is encrypted.
How can I tell if SQL is encrypted?
What is a certificate in SQL Server?
A certificate is a digitally signed security object that contains a public (and optionally a private) key for SQL Server. You can use externally generated certificates or SQL Server can generate certificates.
Is there SSL certificate based encryption in SQL Server 2019?
I have good news about SQL Server 2019 and SSL certificate-based encryption. SQL Server 2019 has its own Certificate Manager built-in SQL Server Configuration Manager 2019. Therefore, from SQL Server onward, you do not need to go through this whole process to enabled SSL certificate-based encryption for SQL Server failover clusters.
Can You import SSL certificates into SQL Server?
With SQL Server 2019 Configuration Manager, you can now import SSL/TLS certificates directly into SQL Server, even for lower versions of SQL Server, starting with SQL Server 2008, without having to work with registry settings (like in the case of failover clusters) and any other actions that might seem complex for many users.
What should be the subjectproperty of a SSL certificate?
The Common Name (CN)in the Subjectproperty of the certificate must be the same as the fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of the server computer. It must be issued for server authentication so the Enhanced Key Usageproperty of the certificate should include ‘Server Authentication (1.3.6.1.5.5.7.3.1)’ (see below).