The focus of this article is to test the performance of SQL Server 2008's Transparent Data Encryption. How does it perform compared to a database without encryption? How does the mix of SELECT/INSERT/UPDATE affect the performance results?
2009-04-28
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How do you keep the passwords and keys for encrypted data safe? Steve Jones comments on the challenges of working with keys and passwords.
2009-04-28
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How do you keep the passwords and keys for encrypted data safe? Steve Jones comments on the challenges of working with keys and passwords.
2009-04-28
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How do you keep the passwords and keys for encrypted data safe? Steve Jones comments on the challenges of working with keys and passwords.
2009-04-28
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A week or so ago I posted a note about reading How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends (worth reading), and I had a comment posted to the blog by author Don Gabor. I like that kind of follow up, so I sent Don a note and a ...
2009-04-28
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Fast analysis, better insight and rapid deployment with minimal IT involvement: these are among the benefits of in-memory analytics, but different products are appropriate for different environments. Read our in-depth report on in-memory technologies.
2009-04-28
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I was a running a routine query using an equal operator on the only column of the primary key for a table and I noticed that the performance was terrible. These queries should have been flying because all I was doing was retrieving one row of data which should have been doing an index seek. When I looked at the query plan it was doing a scan instead. This tip shows you what I found and how to resolve the problem.
2009-04-27
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In the course of giving my security presentations over the past year, I've learned that quite a few folks have never seen the C-I-A triad before. The C-I-A triad stands for...
2009-04-27
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Clustering is often the first choice for high availability, but is it the best choice? A lot of people think so, but Steve Jones has other thoughts.
2009-04-27
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Clustering is often the first choice for high availability, but is it the best choice? A lot of people think so, but Steve Jones has other thoughts.
2009-04-27
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By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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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