October 2011 LV UG Meeting
Boo! OK, so it really isn’t that scary. But it is that time of year and we happen to have something that could fix something that might be scary....
2011-10-11
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Blog Posts
PASS Summit 2011 Day -2 (Monday), part 2
Today was a good day. I posted about the first part of today earlier, and we left off there with...
2011-10-11
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PASS Summit Q&A RoundTable Discussion w/MVPs and Presenters...
Hello, SQL Community and PASS Summit attendees!
This is an exciting week for all of us! It's wheels down for so many in...
2011-10-11
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Remove All Foreign Keys
To clear test data from a database we could use truncate commands but sometimes we need to get rid of...
2011-10-11
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Useful queries #3: Get SQL Server Edition, Version, Build and Last Update date and time.
Keeping track of all the versions and editions SQL Server instances can be a daunting task if you don’t have...
2011-10-11
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Using Custom Code Functions in Reporting Services Reports
Reporting Services is one of those tools that just keeps on giving. I’ve been using SSRS since the early beta...
2011-10-11
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Call for Speakers–South Florida Code Camp 2012
The 2012 South Florida Code Camp is scheduled for February 11, 2012 at Nova University in Ft Lauderdale, and the...
2011-10-10
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MADPASS Follow-Up
A couple weeks back, I drove out to Madison to present at the MADPASS user group. These guys have a...
2011-10-10
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New and Improved DMVs in SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1
With relatively little fanfare, Microsoft added a few new DMVs into the SQL Server 2008 R2 SP1 release, which came...
2011-10-10
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PASS Summit 2011: Day One
After getting a little lost from the rail to the hotel, I finally got to sleep Sunday night after a...
2011-10-10
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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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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