TSQL Tuesday #081 – Sharpening something
This TSQL tuesday is hosted by my good friend Jason Brimhall – Jason has put forth a creative challenge – plan to...
2016-08-10
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Mala Mahadevan
Descriptive Statistics with SQL and R – II
In the previous post I looked into some very basic and common measures of descriptive statistics – mean, median and mode,...
2016-07-24
626 reads
Script to create demo database and load data for statistics and R
Make sure you have a working install of SQL Server 2016. The size of the database is only 8 MB.
USE...
2016-07-15
299 reads
Descriptive Statistics with SQL and R – 1
I started my re-discovery of statistics with an introduction here. This second post is about descriptive statistics – very basic, simple...
2016-07-14
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Basic Statistics with SQL – Introduction
I was a student of statistics in school and college. I didn’t get to use much of anything I learned...
2016-07-10
677 reads
TSQL Tuesday #75 – PowerBI
This month’s TSQL Tuesday post is from one of my favorite people in the community – Jorge Segarra a.k.a. SQL Chicken. It...
2016-02-17
449 reads
Advent of Code – Day 2 – Using Cross apply
For this post i worked on second puzzle in the Adventofcode series. This wasn’t as challenging as the first one, but...
2016-02-02
308 reads
Advent of Code – Day 1 – Parsing a variable
I have been following the series of posts written by my friend and SQL MCM Wayne Sheffield on some TSQL...
2016-01-19
270 reads
Comparing data in two identical tables
Continuing with the recipes in SQL Server 2012 T-SQL recipes book – I was drawn to this puzzle that asked for...
2015-12-14
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Blogs
Microsoft announces new cybersecurity AI multi-model
By Brian Kelley
Yesterday, July 27, 2026, Microsoft announced a new cybersecurity effort called Project Perception. Included...
Getting the SQL Server MCP Server Running
By Steve Jones
If you’ve wanted a SQL Server MCP server for your databases, it’s available. The...
Introducing azsql-migration-test: Test and Validate Azure SQL Database Migrations
Introducing azsql-migration-test, a small open-source CLI that validates your Azure SQL Database migrations against...
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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