Symptoms
Assume that you enable Transparent Data Encryption (TDE) for a database in Microsoft SQL Server. Then, you back up the database by using the BACKUP DATABASE Transact-SQL statement that has a large value specified for the MAXTRANSFERSIZEoption.
When you try to get the backup header information of the TDE compressed backup by using the RESTORE HEADERONLY Transact-SQL statement, the statement takes longer than expected to finish.
Resolution
The fix for this problem is included in the following update for SQL Server:
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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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