This SP will decrypt Stored Procedures, Views or Triggers that were encrypted using "with encryption". It is adapted from a script by asp?txtCodeId=505&lngWId=5">Joseph Gama and ShoeBoy. There are two versions: one for SP's only and the other one for SP's, triggers and views. For version 1, the input is object name (stored procedure, view or trigger), and for version 2, the input is object name (stored procedure, view or trigger), object type ('T'-trigger, 'P'-stored procedure or 'V'-view). From asp?txtCodeId=505&lngWId=5">PlanetSourceCode.com.
create PROCEDURE sp_decrypt_sp (@objectName varchar(50))
AS
DECLARE @OrigSpText1 nvarchar(4000), @OrigSpText2 nvarchar(4000) , @OrigSpText3 nvarchar(4000), @resultsp nvarchar(4000)
declare @i int , @t bigint
--get encrypted data
SET @OrigSpText1=(SELECT ctext FROM syscomments WHERE id = object_id(@objectName))
SET @OrigSpText2='ALTER PROCEDURE '+ @objectName +' WITH ENCRYPTION AS '+REPLICATE('-', 3938)
EXECUTE (@OrigSpText2)
SET @OrigSpText3=(SELECT ctext FROM syscomments WHERE id = object_id(@objectName))
SET @OrigSpText2='CREATE PROCEDURE '+ @objectName +' WITH ENCRYPTION AS '+REPLICATE('-', 4000-62)
--start counter
SET @i=1
--fill temporary variable
SET @resultsp = replicate(N'A', (datalength(@OrigSpText1) / 2))
--loop
WHILE @i<=datalength(@OrigSpText1)/2
BEGIN
--reverse encryption (XOR original+bogus+bogus encrypted)
SET @resultsp = stuff(@resultsp, @i, 1, NCHAR(UNICODE(substring(@OrigSpText1, @i, 1)) ^
(UNICODE(substring(@OrigSpText2, @i, 1)) ^
UNICODE(substring(@OrigSpText3, @i, 1)))))
SET @i=@i+1
END
--drop original SP
EXECUTE ('drop PROCEDURE '+ @objectName)
--remove encryption
--preserve case
SET @resultsp=REPLACE((@resultsp),'WITH ENCRYPTION', ')
SET @resultsp=REPLACE((@resultsp),'With Encryption', ')
SET @resultsp=REPLACE((@resultsp),'with encryption', ')
IF CHARINDEX('WITH ENCRYPTION',UPPER(@resultsp) )>0
SET @resultsp=REPLACE(UPPER(@resultsp),'WITH ENCRYPTION', ')
--replace Stored procedure without enryption
execute( @resultsp)
GO
Reader Feedback
Joakim M. writes: I tried this script with mixed results. It works for some encrypted procedures, but for others I get error meassages like:
Server: Msg 512, Level 16, State 1, Procedure sp_decrypt_sp, Line 7.
Subquery returned more than 1 value. This is not permitted when the
subquery follows =, !=, <, <= , >, >= or when the subquery is used as
an expression.