SQL Server Error Msg 15393 – An error occurred while decrypting the password for linked login ‘%.*ls’ that was encrypted by the old master key. The FORCE option can be used to ignore this error and continue the operation but the data encrypted by the old master key will be lost.

In this blog post, let’s learn about the error message “15393 – An error occurred while decrypting the password for linked login ‘%.*ls’ that was encrypted by the old master key. The FORCE option can be used to ignore this error and continue the operation but the data encrypted by the old master key will be lost.” in Microsoft SQL Server, the reason why it appears and the solution to fix it.

SQL Server Error Message

15393 – An error occurred while decrypting the password for linked login ‘%.*ls’ that was encrypted by the old master key. The FORCE option can be used to ignore this error and continue the operation but the data encrypted by the old master key will be lost.

Reason for the Error

To be update soon…

Solution

To be update soon…