How To: Automate Continuous SQLServer Activity with Stored Procedures and Powershell Jobs
The Goal
It’s often useful to be able to run a bunch of stored procedures in the background over a period...
2011-03-02
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Kendra Little
Internals Matter: Why You Should Check Your Page Verify Settings, and I Should Go to Masters Immersion Training (SQL Skills Contest Entry)
This post is about two things:
1) Your Page Verification Settings are Critical
You should confirm you are running with the correct...
2011-01-25
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Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-25
1,467 reads
Corrupting Databases for Dummies- Hex Editor Edition
Corruption is so ugly it gets a lolworm instead of a lolcat.
Let’s make one thing clear from the start:
This Post...
2011-01-24
2,621 reads
Read from the Right End of the Index: BACKWARD Scans
Optimizing queries is the most fun when you don’t need to add indexes. There’s nothing quite so nice as finding...
2011-01-21
1,894 reads
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-12
2,034 reads
Date Rounding Tactics and the Tiny Devil of SMALLDATETIME
Tiny Devils
With every new year I think a little bit about time and dates. This posts looks a little more...
2011-01-06
2,410 reads
Filling in Data Potholes Redux: Tally Tables vs CTEs
In A Previous Installment
Re-Ducks
… our heroine (that’s me) rediscovered CTEs, specifically in the recursive style. That was in my post...
2011-01-04
1,116 reads
Why I’m All For 24HOP Showcasing 24 Women Speakers
This is not the HOP you are looking for.
I’ve been thinking about the upcoming 24HOP event planned for March 15...
2010-12-27
971 reads
Filling in Data Potholes with Recursive CTEs
Data: it can break your foot.
Imagine that you are writing a script that looks at data grouped by the minute....
2010-12-23
1,144 reads
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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