You have been asked to establish the use of extensible key management (EKM) for a database that contains highly valuable data. Currently your SQL Server is running Windows Server 2008 64 but with SQL Server Standard Edition also using 64 bit. What steps must you take in order to implement EKM?

You have been asked to establish the use of extensible key management (EKM) for a database that contains highly valuable data. Currently your SQL Server is running Windows Server 2008 64 but with SQL Server Standard Edition also using 64 bit. What steps must you take in order to implement EKM?

You have been asked to establish the use of extensible key management (EKM) for a database that contains highly valuable data. Currently your SQL Server is running Windows Server 2008 64 but with SQL Server Standard Edition also using 64 bit. What steps must you take in order to implement EKM?


Answer: -  All of the above are required.

(Extensible key management (EKM) requires the Enterprise Edition of SQL Server as well as software and a dll file from the EKM provider. A Hardware Security Module may optionally be used. Once the dll file is available, SQL Server must be configured.)