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2011-11-10
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Blog Posts
SQL Triggers - An Introduction
Introduction
Triggers can be defined as the database objects which perform some action for automatic execution whenever users try to do execute...
2011-11-10
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Stored Procedure Checklist
DBAs find it easier to manage large Database Server environments when checklists are used. This Stored procedure checklist will stimulate...
2011-11-10
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Tentative Meetings
A lot of my work right now involves going to meetings. A few of them are ones I host, a...
2011-11-10
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Book Review: Moneyball
With the movie coming out I realized somehow I’d missed reading Moneyball by Michael Lewis. It’s the story of how...
2011-11-09
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Eighty Logical Cores of Goodness!
I recently had the opportunity to specify the purchase of a couple of Dell PowerEdge R810 2U servers that will...
2011-11-09
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My Playbook For Putting On a SQLSaturday Part 2: Venue
Finding Your Venue
Sounds simple right?
It can be one of the most difficult things to do for something the size of...
2011-11-09
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Physical Servers What are They?
Today I'm in the process of installing some physical servers. To put this into perspective due to the companies I...
2011-11-09
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PreCon–SQL Saturday Tampa
I recently had a great opportunity to present a preconference all day event in Tampa with the crew from the...
2011-11-09
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Script level upgrade for database ‘master’ failed
A few weeks ago one of our clustered server nodes blue-screened and when it came back on SQL refused to start. I started digging in and this is what...
2011-11-09
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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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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