DROP CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROVIDER (Transact-SQL)
SQL Server 2012
Drops a cryptographic provider within SQL Server.
To delete an Extensible Key Management (EKM) provider, all sessions that use the provider must be stopped.
An EKM provider can only be dropped if there are no credentials mapped to it.
If there are keys mapped to an EKM provider when it is dropped the GUIDs for the keys remain stored in SQL Server. If a provider is created later with the same key GUIDs, the keys will be reused.
The following example drops a cryptographic provider called SecurityProvider.
/* First, disable provider to perform the upgrade. This will terminate all open cryptographic sessions. */ ALTER CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROVIDER SecurityProvider SET ENABLED = OFF; GO /* Drop the provider. */ DROP CRYPTOGRAPHIC PROVIDER SecurityProvider; GO
