Table Hierarchy goes CS
At the urging of a friend, this script is being updated for those that are dealing with Case Sensitivity. The first few rounds, I neglected Case Sensitivity and never...
2011-11-16
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Blog Posts
The CASE of the missing non-NULL T-SQL Error: None of the result expressions in a CASE specification can be NULL.
Recently, while doing some data scrubbing for a customer I got an interesting error in SSMS with one of my...
2011-11-16
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A Trio of Tools
I have talked about tools for SQL server a few times in the past. You can read some of what...
2011-11-15
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A Trio of Tools
I have talked about tools for SQL server a few times in the past. You can read some of what I wrote here and here. Since writing those last...
2011-11-15
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ColoradoSQL in November (2011)
All ColoradoSQL user group meetings start at 5:30 p.m. and provide food and refreshments. There is no cost to attend...
2011-11-15
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DBA in Space: Behind the Scenes Part 2
This is a continuation of my DBA in Space journal.
Monday & Tuesday, September 12-13, 2011
Today I make my “secret” journey to...
2011-11-15
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Going to PASS 2012!
As I have previously written about in this space, I have recently moved to House of Brick Technologies. Part of...
2011-11-15
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Last Week's DB Security Workshop @ Oracle Montreal
DB Security Workshop @ Oracle Montreal
I have
dedicated several posts on the importance of being a Data Steward, and the
consequences of not...
2011-11-15
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PASS Data Arch. Virtual Chapter: On beyond Zebra AdventureWorks OR where did I go wrong?
Subject: On beyond Zebra AdventureWorks or where did I go wrong?
Level: 200 (Intermediate)
Start Time: Thursday, November 17, 2011 8:00...
2011-11-15
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PASS Data Arch. Virtual Chapter: On beyond Zebra AdventureWorks OR where did I go wrong?
PASS Data Arch. Virtual Chapter: On beyond Zebra AdventureWorks OR where did I go wrong?
Subject:On beyond Zebra AdventureWorks or where...
2011-11-15
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Blogs
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)...
Generate Embeddings in SQL with Aurora and Bedrock
Most embedding pipelines on AWS have the same shape: a job reads rows out...
Resolving SQL Server Transaction Log Issues Efficiently
By Arun Sirpal
Transaction log issues are one of the quietest ways a healthy database turns into...
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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