My Kit For The Summit
As an old timer at the Sumit I have gone through several iterations of what I carry in my bag.
Luggage
I...
2011-10-05
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Blog Posts
Spock Does Final Convention Appearance
I saw this post about Leonard Nimoy doing his final convention appearance this week. He’s 80, I would guess doesn’t...
2011-10-05
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SQLRelay: The Third Leg
Feedback from the second leg of SQLRelay was very positive indeed. The attendees from my Maidenhead group were very impressed...
2011-10-05
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Two For One, SQLSaturday and MVP All In One Day.
Day Of Days
I just don’t know what to say, Saturday was just plain awesome. Easily one of the best days...
2011-10-05
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Two Great Talks on the State of Internet Security
Recently I've started following the public work of Mikko Hypponen (blog | twitter), the Chief Research Officer of F-Secure. I've known...
2011-10-05
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Attending the Summit? Learn Networking With Don Gabor!
My friend, author, and networking guru Don Gabor is back at the Summit for the third year in a row,...
2011-10-04
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Backup/Restore vs Detach & Attach
You want to move a database from one server to another. There are two options to do that.
1) Detach/Attach: To...
2011-10-04
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Basic Inner Joins – Basic Skill #4
This post is part of a series based on my presentation The Top Ten Skills You Need for SQL Server....
2011-10-04
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GET MVP DEEP DIVES VOL 2 50% OFF - TODAY ONLY!
Quick blog post to let you know that a special ONE-DAY TODAY ONLY deal by the publisher of the fantastic SQL Server...
2011-10-04
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Growing like a weed?
The other day, someone said to me ?You guys are growing like a weed? Now it was a competitor, so...
2011-10-04
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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