Trusting Online
How do you earn trust online? How do you decide who to trust? Steve Jones comments a bit about this this works in the digital world.
2009-06-25
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Articles
Deploying Databases From Visual Studio Team System Database Edition
With the GDR release, a whole new set of deployment functionality has become available to VSTS: DB.
2009-06-24
5,539 reads
Practical Database Change Management (Part 1)
Changing a database an integral and crucial part in every application's life cycle. Part 1 of this series looks at the steps and procedures prior to implementing the change
2009-06-24
3,907 reads
Retaining historical index usage statistics for SQL Server - Part 2
We look at performing the same task for the sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats Dynamic Management Function (or DMF.) The process is identical, the code is however quite different due to the structural differences between sys.dm_db_index_usage_stats and sys.dm_db_index_operational_stats.
2009-06-24
2,265 reads
Tips on Getting HIred – Part 3
Part 1 discussed ways to find opportunities, Part 2 was about how to get more interviews, and today we’ll cover some tips from the employer perspective. Don’t use an AOL.com email address. Seriously. Gmail, Live, Yahoo, all are good, but AOL.com makes...
2009-06-24
2,538 reads
Adding a Computed Column to a Table (1) - SQL School Video
In this SQL School video, Andy Warren shows how you can alter a table to add a computed column. This is part 1 of 2.
2009-06-23
4,650 reads
Capturing I/O patterns using Process Monitor
In this article, Edward Elliot shows us how to capture the types, size and location of SQL Server I/O requests.
2009-06-23
9,851 reads
Expect an Attack
Most companies in a recent survey expect to get hacked this year. Steve Jones wishes that the technological leaders would help everyone develop more secure code by publishing more information.
2009-06-23
683 reads
Expect an Attack
Most companies in a recent survey expect to get hacked this year. Steve Jones wishes that the technological leaders would help everyone develop more secure code by publishing more information.
2009-06-23
734 reads
Expect an Attack
Most companies in a recent survey expect to get hacked this year. Steve Jones wishes that the technological leaders would help everyone develop more secure code by publishing more information.
2009-06-23
927 reads
Blogs
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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Symmetric Key Encryption
If I run this statement in SQL Server 2025, how is the password encrypted?
CREATE SYMMETRIC KEY MySymmetricKey WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256, KEY_SOURCE = 'My secret key source passphrase', IDENTITY_VALUE = 'My secret identity value' ENCRYPTION BY PASSWORD = 'S&perS#cretP@ssword7'; GOSee possible answers