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2011-10-03
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Blog Posts
An Informal Compendium of SSAS Errors, Part 3: Unresolved Errors
This is the second in a series of posts on some SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) errors for which there...
2011-10-02
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Dataset with Text or Stored Procedure
As most of you already know, Reporting Services reports make use of Datasets to get data. These Datasets can get...
2011-10-02
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Slides & Samples from my SQLbits sessions
As
I have announced in all of my sessions at the SQLbits conferences in Liverpool/UK,
you can find here the
Slides & Samples for...
2011-10-02
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SQL Saturday 85 Follow Up
Last weekend I travelled down to SQL Saturday 85 in Orlando, FL. Like all of the other events that I’ve...
2011-10-02
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SQL Saturday 97 has ended
Well it isn’t quite over for me just yet, I still have a flight home tomorrow and can’t wait to...
2011-10-02
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24 HOP recordings
For all of you, that you have missed any session from the last 24 HOPass - you can check here
24 Session...
2011-10-01
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Come For The Education Stay For The Networking
OMG! SQLSATURDAY #97 IS HERE!
I am really excited about SQLSaturday #97! In just a few short hours we will be...
2011-10-01
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How to find out which Table is not having rows in SQL Server?
Introduction
Many times while tuning our production databases we might try to find out the list of tables not having even...
2011-10-01
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Live Blogging SQL Saturday #97 Austin (hashtag #sqlsat97)
Hello and welcome to my live blog/recap of SQL Saturday #97 in Austin! Wes Brown and the crew from CACTUSS...
2011-10-01
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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