Using Signed Assemblies for SQLCLR: Doing the Safety Dance.

Kent Tegels — Thu, 16 Feb 2006 18:23:00 GMT

You know that song. Yes, that song. The beeping. The arm flailing. The Safety Dance. I so wanted it stay in the 80s – along side the uncounted Wild Turkey inflicted hangovers. It just won’t. Every now and then that damn beeping rhythm creeps into my conscious thought when I least need it to. Like today. I’ve been trying to figure out how to use the last-minute-added ability to catalog signed assemblies that need External Access or Unsafe permission without having to set the database trustworthy bit. Getting frustrated with the interesting example in Books Online, the beeping started.

So here’s what you really need to know:

The first you need is a certificate that can establish a chain of trust to some trusted root certificate authority on the target machine. If you’ve already got one thanks to having Certificate Server on your network or you’ve purchased one, great. If not, you can make one for yourself as we’ll do there.
You need to understand the *interesting* inter-play of certificates, logins and signing assemblies. It is not hard once you understand that you can use a single certificate to do all of that.
You will have to comfortable using the Command Shell and a couple of tools in the .NET Software Development Kit (SDK), namely SignTool and MakeCert.

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Using Signed Assemblies for SQLCLR: Doing the Safety Dance.