Instant File Initialisation
I have been reading up on instant file initialization and I have read a couple of good blog posts by...
2010-01-21
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Gethyn Ellis
DDL Triggers
We had a request from a developer who wanted to access data from a source database and another database on...
2010-01-20
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SQL Server 2008 R2 - Release May2010
SQL Server 2008 R2 now has a release date...May 2010.
Check out the microsoft site for more details...link to follow
2010-01-20
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SQL Server Resource Governor
I didn’t know this bit Resource Governor in SQL Server 2008 is only available in Enterprise edition
2010-01-20
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January Roundup
I have just put together the January newsletter for www.gre-sqlserver-solutions.com and scheduled it to run Sunday night/Monday morning. It is...
2010-01-16
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Lock configuration setting and preventing locking contention
The locks configuration option for SQL Server controls the number of locks available in SQL Server. You can view this...
2010-01-11
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Permon Counters Missing Windows 64 Bit SQL Server 32 Bit
For reasons beyond the scope of this post I have an environment where I have Windows 2003 R2 64 bit...
2010-01-11
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A Day Off
I'm having a day off tomorrow, got some nice things planned including a trip to the beach with the puppies....
2009-12-10
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Database Books
Well my theory on posting every week has been tested to the limit somewhat and I didn’t get anything written...
2009-12-08
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weekly update
Well I said that I would try to post regularly and seeing as its Sunday and I haven’t posted for...
2009-11-29
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Blogs
Methodology for dealing with bad data in production
By Brian Kelley
Pinal Dave wrote up his methodology for what to do when you discover bad...
How to Provision an Azure SQL Database
Aside from spinning up a SQL Server instance container, the free Azure SQL Database...
Claude finds two cryptographic weaknesses (but the sky isn’t falling)
By Brian Kelley
If you haven't seen the announcement, Anthropic was able to utilize Claude (Mythos Preview)...
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The “Successful Login” Dilemma: Why Your Login Auditing Strategy Might Be Hurting Your Server
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Building Your Own Software
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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