SQL Server
Get Certificate Chain Certs

Demonstrates how to get the certs in the chain of authentication for a certificate loaded from the Windows certificate store.
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-- Important: See this note about string length limitations for strings returned by sp_OAMethod calls.
--
CREATE PROCEDURE ChilkatSample
AS
BEGIN
    DECLARE @hr int
    -- Important: Do not use nvarchar(max).  See the warning about using nvarchar(max).
    DECLARE @sTmp0 nvarchar(4000)
    DECLARE @success int
    SELECT @success = 0

    DECLARE @cert int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Cert', @cert OUT
    IF @hr <> 0
    BEGIN
        PRINT 'Failed to create ActiveX component'
        RETURN
    END

    -- This example will get the SSL server certificate for tools.chilkat.io
    -- which we happen to have locally installed in our Windows certificate store.
    EXEC sp_OAMethod @cert, 'LoadByCommonName', @success OUT, 'tools.chilkat.io'
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @cert, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @cert
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @chain int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.CertChain', @chain OUT

    EXEC sp_OAMethod @cert, 'BuildCertChain', @success OUT, @chain
    IF @success = 0
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @cert, 'LastErrorText', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @sTmp0
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @cert
        EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @chain
        RETURN
      END

    DECLARE @certInChain int
    EXEC @hr = sp_OACreate 'Chilkat.Cert', @certInChain OUT

    DECLARE @numCerts int
    EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @chain, 'NumCerts', @numCerts OUT
    DECLARE @i int
    SELECT @i = 0
    WHILE @i < @numCerts
      BEGIN
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @chain, 'CertAt', @success OUT, @i, @certInChain

        EXEC sp_OAGetProperty @certInChain, 'SubjectCN', @sTmp0 OUT
        PRINT @i + 1 + ': ' + @sTmp0

        -- Get this certificate in base64 format
        DECLARE @b64 nvarchar(4000)
        EXEC sp_OAMethod @certInChain, 'GetEncoded', @b64 OUT

        PRINT @b64

        SELECT @i = @i + 1
      END

    -- The output of the above code is:

    -- 1: tools.chilkat.io
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    -- 
    -- 2: Sectigo RSA Domain Validation Secure Server CA
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    -- 
    -- 3: USERTrust RSA Certification Authority
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    -- 
    -- 4: AAA Certificate Services
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    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @cert
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @chain
    EXEC @hr = sp_OADestroy @certInChain


END
GO