OT: Amateur Astronomy
Back in 1997, when the Mars Pathfinder bounced down on Mars on July 4, releasing the little Sojourner rover to...
2011-11-12
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Blog Posts
Cool Windows 8 Blog
For those of you interested in cool new technology, you should definitely check out ?Building Windows 8? which is a...
2011-11-11
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Parallel execution in SSIS
Parallel execution in SSIS improves performance on computers that have multiple physical or logical processors. To support parallel execution of...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2008R2 BI Presenations
I recently gave a couple of presentations about the new Business Intelligence features in SQL Server 2008 R2. Here are...
2011-11-11
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SQL Server 2012 Licensing and Hardware Considerations
Last week, Microsoft announced some pretty fundamental changes in how SQL Server 2012 will be licensed compared to previous versions...
2011-11-11
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SQL University: Advanced Indexing – Indexing Strategies
Right, I know it’s Friday and everyone’s tired and looking forward to the weekend, but I do need to finish...
2011-11-11
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#SSRS error – An item with the same key has already been added
Here is a simple yet annoying error I ran into while creating a dataset. Below is the query that I...
2011-11-10
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Creating a Transaction Log Full Alert
When I was a kid, my mom had an old cookie-tin in which she kept her sewing supplies. On the...
2011-11-10
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My Playbook For Putting On a SQLSaturday Part 3: Food
Feed Me Seymour!
Welcome to your number one cost. Every budget I’ve looked at so far food is the top expense...
2011-11-10
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Notes from SQLSaturday #86 in Tampa
Quick notes as it is already Thursday!
The speaker party went well. Well attended, I spent a lot of time chatting...
2011-11-10
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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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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