December Monthly SQL Server Checklist
It’s the first Monday of the December, and it’s time to do a monthly checkup. As previously mentioned, the premise...
2011-12-05
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Blog Posts
Enable XA transactions for SQL Server
An XA transaction is a global transaction usually covering multiple resources.
Use the Microsoft SQL Server JDBC Driver to support the ...
2011-12-05
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Get Involved – This Week In PASS
We’re all busy people. We have jobs, families, and responsibilities out the wazoo. Little Timmy needs to be picked up...
2011-12-05
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Meme Monday - What I Want for Christmas from Microsoft
This Christmas if I could get one thing from Microsoft it would be recognition that DBA's are not developers. This...
2011-12-05
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Powershell and Dynamic SSIS (or any for that matter) Config files
As I imagine that the majority of people who are reading this will have some level of SSIS knowledge, I’ll...
2011-12-05
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Registration Open for SQLRally 2012 in Dallas
On my list of things to get done this week is register for SQLRally 2012 in Dallas. It’s a quick...
2011-12-05
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Resolutions: Outcome
Earlier this year, I wrote a post about my upcoming plans for the year in response to a question asked...
2011-12-05
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SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit
The SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit has been updated with a bunch of new content (download it here). This...
2011-12-05
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Upgrading Denali CTP3 to SQL Server 2012 RC0
When I started looking into the upgrade path for this, I saw a couple of notes online about the fact...
2011-12-05
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WAN Optimization–Part 2
After installing the WAN optimization appliances on all of our main sites, we have liked what we’ve seen thus far....
2011-12-05
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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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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