T-SQL Tuesday #119 – Changing My Mind
This post is for the most recent #tsql2sday, a monthly exercise where a topic is proposed by a community member and everyone is invited to post their thoughts on...
2019-10-08
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DesertDBA
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How I applied 13 cumulative updates in 12 minutes
Twitter is a strange place. I mean, aside from all the outrage practice and animal videos. Last week I sent out a tweet about how I used dbatools to...
2019-10-04
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Find and fix that troublesome Windows Power setting
For the most part, the default configurations for SQL Server are pretty good. Yeah, there are a few you should definitely change (like say, the ones involving parallelism), but...
2019-08-30
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Find and fix that troublesome Windows Power setting
For the most part, the default configurations for SQL Server are pretty good. Yeah, there are a few you should definitely change (like say, the ones involving parallelism), but...
2019-08-30
8 reads
For those who want to be a Junior DBA
I’ve been fortunate to have spoken at a few SQL Saturday events this year, and one of the sessions I’ve had the pleasure of presenting has been about getting...
2019-08-01
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For those who want to be a Junior DBA
I’ve been fortunate to have spoken at a few SQL Saturday events this year, and one of the sessions I’ve had the pleasure of presenting has been about getting...
2019-08-01
8 reads
So, my first SQL Saturday presentation had some issues
It’s been a while since I’ve had a new post here, and that’s largely due to the quantity of other things on which I’ve been working. This list of...
2019-04-19
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So, my first SQL Saturday presentation had some issues
It’s been a while since I’ve had a new post here, and that’s largely due to the quantity of other things on which I’ve been working. This list of...
2019-04-19
3 reads
Central Management Server – not just three boring words
Maybe more people would use the Central Management Server feature of Management Studio if it had a name that didn’t sound as utilitarian as a heat pump. Something like...
2019-01-28
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Central Management Server – not just three boring words
Maybe more people would use the Central Management Server feature of Management Studio if it had a name that didn’t sound as utilitarian as a heat pump. Something like...
2019-01-28
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Question of the Day
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