Take Advantage of Hard Times
With the economy in a downturn, Steve Jones talks about what you might want to do to be pro-active with your projects.
2009-04-20
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Articles
Take Advantage of Hard Times
With the economy in a downturn, Steve Jones talks about what you might want to do to be pro-active with your projects.
2009-04-20
75 reads
Giving Back
Steve Jones takes a minute today to congratulate Brian Knight and the Pragmatic Works Foundation for their efforts in giving back to the community.
2009-04-19
474 reads
Giving Back
Steve Jones takes a minute today to congratulate Brian Knight and the Pragmatic Works Foundation for their efforts in giving back to the community.
2009-04-19
496 reads
Giving Back
Steve Jones takes a minute today to congratulate Brian Knight and the Pragmatic Works Foundation for their efforts in giving back to the community.
2009-04-19
751 reads
Operating system Error 112
The error message pops up when you try to restore the database to a different server or to a desktop or to a FAT32 file system. Learn a couple of ways for dealing with this error.
2009-04-17
5,328 reads
Detach and attach Analysis Service Database using Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2008 AMO
This installment of our series on " Microsoft Windows PowerShell and SQL Server 2008 AMO" examines the various types of Analysis service database detach and attach methods.
2009-04-17
2,192 reads
How To Read A PayPal Notification Email
Learn how to read information from a PayPal Notification email by using Microsoft Access, Outlook and VBA.
2009-04-17
3,025 reads
Networking = Business Cards
I've been writing a lot about networking lately and my efforts to learn/leverage LinkedIn, and along the way taken a few hits for opening up my Linked In network to include those of you who read my blog regularly and want to connect. The essence ...
2009-04-17
1,523 reads
Introduction to Profiler
This article introduces Profiler presenting what it is, how to use it, and why you might want to use it.
2009-04-16
10,990 reads
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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