Daniel Calbimonte

Daniel Calbimonte is an Expert in SQL Server including SSIS, SSRS, SSAS, and Azure.
He is a tech writer, blogger, DBA Developer, and consultant.
  • Skills: ssas, ssis, ssrs, Power BI, Azure

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ChatGPT in SQL Server - Practical examples

Introduction ChatGPT in SQL Server In this article, we will learn some basic examples of ChatGPT in SQL Server. In a previous article, we had an interview with ChatGPT an AI chatbot developed by OpenAI. If you do not know how to use it yet, you can go to that article. We will show some […]

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2023-03-06

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How to Create a Power BI report using MySQL data

Introduction In this article, we will learn to create a Power BI report using MySQL data. The article will teach us to use the MySQL Workbench (something like the SSMS, but for MySQL). We will do the following in this article. First, we will connect and create a database in MySQL. Secondly, we will create a […]

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2023-01-09

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Question of the Day

Backing up the Database Encryption Key

In my SQL Server 2022 database, I run this:

USE Sales;  
GO  
CREATE DATABASE ENCRYPTION KEY  
WITH ALGORITHM = AES_256  
ENCRYPTION BY SERVER CERTIFICATE MyServerCert;  
GO
This works, but I want to prepare for the future and potential issues. How do I back up my DEK?

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