Symptoms
Assume that you publish a Transparent Data Encryption (TDE)-encrypted database for transactional replication in Microsoft SQL Server 2016. When you use the sp_addpullsubscription_agent stored procedure to add a subscription to the publication, you may receive an error message that resembles the following:
Msg 102, Level 15, State 1, Procedure sp_MSaddreplsymmetrickey, Line 42 Incorrect syntax near 'TRIPLE_DES'.
Resolution
This fix is included in the following updates:
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Cumulative Update 4 for SQL Server 2016 Service Pack 1
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Cumulative Update 7 for SQL Server 2016
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Status
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
References
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