SQL Server – SQL Server 2008 Service Pack 3 RTM Released
Microsoft has released Service Pack 3 for SQL Server 2008 yesterday. You can read this blog post from SQL Server...
2011-10-07
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Blog Posts
The Khan Academy
It’s completely unrelated to work, though there is a computer science section.
I can’t take credit for this, that goes to...
2011-10-07
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What I Learned at #SPC11
This week, I attended the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (#SPC11) in Anaheim. Not my usual beat, to be sure, but our company is starting to use SharePoint more, and...
2011-10-07
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What I Learned at #SPC11
This week, I attended the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (#SPC11) in Anaheim. Not my usual beat, to be sure, but...
2011-10-07
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What I Learned at #SPC11
This week, I attended the Microsoft SharePoint Conference 2011 (#SPC11) in Anaheim. Not my usual beat, to be sure, but our company is starting to use SharePoint more, and...
2011-10-07
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Build Your Own Event at the PASS Summit
There’s a bunch of stuff scheduled for the PASS Summit next week. You can see some of the events on...
2011-10-06
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Detecting Security Updates on Vista/Windows 7/2008/2008R2
When trying to detect whether updates have been installed or not, there were several places we investigated:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\UninstallHKLM\Software\Microsoft\WindowsNT\CurrentVersion\HotFixHKLM\Software\Microsoft\UpdatesSome updates still write to...
2011-10-06
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Expiring Databases and Policy-Based Management
Today on Twitter my friend Jes “Run Forrest Run” Schultz Borland (Blog | Twitter) asked the Community “How do you clean...
2011-10-06
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GiveCamp in Orlando Oct 21-23, 2011
The GiveCamp in Orlando needs volunteers to convert 25 reports from Crystal to Reporting Services. Food is provided, just need...
2011-10-06
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Houston TechFest UG Leadership Summit
At the Houston TechFest 2011 Conference at the University of Houston I will be hosting a User Group Leadership Summit...
2011-10-06
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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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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