Certificates

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Certificates, in addition to symmetric and asymmetric keys, provide support for Public Key Encryption. Certificates are digitally signed security objects containing a public key and optionally, a private key.

Creating and editing

• Certificate Wizard (SQL Server) and Certificates Editor (SQL Server)

DBMS platform availability and object actions/operations supported

The table below lists the platforms on which this object type is available. It also lists the object actions available against objects of this type For an introduction to object actions and details on usage of specific actions, see Object actions.

	SQL SVR
Add Private Key	✓
Backup Certificate	✓
Drop	✓
Extract	✓
Report	✓

Related information

• Asymmetric Keys
• Symmetric Keys